Cincinnati Review

Winshen Liu’s poem “Lunch Break” interrogates hunger and sustenance.

Natalie Villacorta talks about how working with children at WordPlay Cincy and Oyler High School helped her see her own writing practices.

MoPoetry Phillips discusses the power of writing therapy for those who have experienced trauma as well as for those in the corporate world.

L. S. Klatt on poet Kenneth Koch’s relationship to the city where he grew up.

Tyrone Williams on failed attempts to integrate Cincinnati’s literary scene

In Issue 20.2, one of our twentieth-anniversary issues, we present a special feature on where writing lives in Cincinnati. We reached out to six writers who are current or former residents of the city, giving them the following prompt: We’ve been thinking about Cincinnati as the site of intersections: of North and South, with the …

Jim Palmarini gives a lyrical tour through fifty years of the poetry scene in the Cincinnati region.

Pauletta Hansel details her experiences with the literary community in Cincinnati.

Naturally, we also exchange other tidbits about their futures that we’re privy to as the descendants of oracles.