We’re trying something new and different—a collaboration with the amazing online magazine Soapbox. Soapbox tells the new Cincinnati story—a narrative of creative people and businesses, new development, cool places to live, and the best places to work and play. And each month, Cincinnati Review will contribute some of the best lit—poetry, fiction, and nonfiction—in the country. The …
The force of the thunderclap that woke us this morning at 3 a.m. heralded good news: two more of our contributors have been chosen for two great anthologies! Don Russ’s poem “Girl with Gerbil” (from Issue 8.1) has been chosen for the Best American Poetry 2012. He joins other contributors Julianna Baggott, James Kimbrell, and …
Our regular blog-readers (whom we casually yet affectionately refer to as bloggulers) are already familiar with Don Peteroy’s recurring feature, in which our volunteer-cum-inquisitor poses a single, and singular, question to a hapless group of innocent wordsmiths of his choosing. (He likes them—a lot—though sometimes it’s hard to tell.) Don is also a musician, a …
You know how sometimes you can tell something about a person just by looking at her? For example, the staff here at CR can tell you nine times out of ten what color a person’s hair is with little more than a prolonged glance (the tenth time we get tripped up by the nuances of …
We are exceptionally thrilled to congratulate three of our contributors whose poems (all from Issue 7.2) were chosen by Mark Doty for the Best American Poetry 2012! Julianna Baggott, “For Furious Nursing Baby” James Kimbrell, “How to Tie a Knot” Dean Rader, “Self-Portrait as Dido to Aeneas” Greatest congratulations to them! Below, we’ve posted some …
Any day now, we’re going to receive a number of large, ridiculously heavy boxes full of Issue 8.2. As we wait, we’re doing core-strengthening exercises and reminding ourselves to lift with our legs. Managing editor Nicola Mason leads us in calisthenics to start each day, periodically shouting: “Knees higher! Come on, people, an ampersand has …
CR volunteer Nick Story is a fiction writer. But of course! you say. With a name like that, how could he be anything but? Well, the story (pun intended) isn’t as simple as you’d think. Even though he sprang from his crib waxing eloquent on his eternally spinning mobile—and as a second-grader wrote a forty-page …
Issue 8.2 is almost here! Until then, you can print our cover image, from a painting by Antonio Carreno, to make an imitation issue to tide you over for the next couple weeks.
You know how Joyce said that if Dublin burned to rubble, you could use Ulysses to rebuild it? Well, after Tuesday’s fine intro, we (some of us, anyway) have decided to make this blog, in part, the Ulysses of Joe Dargue. (But don’t burn to rubble, Joe!) Ten more facts about him: 1. Like most …
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