Cincinnati Review

A near-drowning raises questions about faith and testimony in this poem by Lucian Mattison.

There’s a feeling of inevitability about trains—a stubbornness in the way a train moves along its track without deviation.

In “Or Better Yet,” Llanes Brownlee captures the whirlwind of color and sound of a bustling family gathering.

In this darkly comic hybrid piece, Michael Hugh Stewart charts an escalating feud over eviction and erasure.

An incantatory poem with rich images from the natural world and a deft hand with syntactical ambiguity.

In this microessay, Kimberly Elkins explores the intoxication of a dangerous adolescent game and how it colors all that follows in the character’s life.