Cincinnati Review

This poem from KB Brookins’s forthcoming collection bridges the genres of love poem and political poem.

Stefanie Kirby’s extended exploration of the uterus complicates our sense of a part of the body often linked just to reproduction.

The brief moment captured in “Mirror” reveals time in all its dimensions and reversals.

Two entries from Beth Gilstrap’s series “There Is News along the Ohio River” balance survival and awe.

Jay Julio’s “Leftist Love Song” pokes and prods at all the ways our current political climate has disappointed us, and peels back the mask of the “American dream” to reveal the devastation that lies beneath it.

“What small hand has / all my infant blood?” What begins as a meditation on the scars on the speaker’s back becomes a portrait of unfathomable pain in equally unfathomable grace.