This year, at the Associated Writing Programs conference in Washington, D.C., Cincinnati Review, Mid-American Review, and Ninth Letter will be offering a combined subscription to all three journals for only $33. That’s right, at AWP and only at AWP you can get your mitts on the Midwest’s most precious resource (not counting soybeans and corn) …
If you’ll be at AWP in DC, or even if you don’t know what that is but you’re within a two-week headlong sprint of Dupont Circle, then you should join the Monster Mags of the Midwest—Ninth Letter, Mid-American Review, and Cincinnati Review—for a fearsome night of reading, Heartland-style, with plenty of poetry, fiction, and beer …
We’re obviously big fans of Edith Pearlman—her story “Life Lessons” is coming out in our fall/winter issue (8.2), and you can read her stories in several CR back issues too. So we’re happy to see that her new collection, Binocular Vision, has garnered Sunday book reviews from both the NY Times and the LA Times. Check …
When one of us finds a poem or story in our pages that we especially like, it’s common for us to adopt the voice of that piece for the rest of the day. On any given week in the office, you might hear us conducting staff meetings in the omniscient past, or addressing the fax …
Kevin Young has selected D. A. Powell’s poem “Bugcatching at Twilight,” first printed in issue 7.1 of Cincinnati Review, for inclusion in Best American Poetry 2011. Congratulations, D. A.!
Blogophiles (whom we dub, during the time you’re reading our blog, as CRogophiles): get ready for installment seven of “Why We Like It,” weekly (sort of) segments that expose the pulsating hearts of poetry and prose in our pages like coronary bypass surgery—only what we do is less gross and sounds more mellifluous. This week …
The Cincinnati Review is delighted that our contributor Jane Springer is one of the winners of this year’s Whiting Awards. Her first book, Dear Blackbird, won the Agha Shahid Ali Prize and was published by the University of Utah Press. Jane’s other awards include the Robert Penn Warren Prize for Poetry, an AWP Intro Award, …
by Matt McBride Though the work we receive here at Cincinnati Review is always eclectic, we do occasionally notice odd trends in what comes over the transom. Here are two that have cropped up lately. Poems, including a sestina, about Lady Gaga: This is, we suppose, not surprising. It’s just the way the world is …
Okay, blog-readers, get ready for our sixth pupil-dilating installment of “Why We Like It”—weekly reflections by our volunteers on why the good stuff in our pages is the good stuff in our pages. Little known fact: Our volunteers often act out the pieces they intend to write on, and the staff really enjoys these little …
Thanks to Richard Russo for giving a shout out to Cincinnati Review on this past weekend’s All Things Considered. Check out the interview, in which he discusses Brendan Mathews’s story “My Last Attempt to Explain to You What Happened with the Lion Tamer,” first published in our pages then reprinted in Best American Short Stories …
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