Cincinnati Review

In this poem by Sally Rosen Kindred, unexpected childhood remembrances carry with them a sense of mourning.

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

It will be better, our friend said,           to just accept that everythingis gone—as though lightening            with that expression the weight of each breathless            click throughout the evening,as on a map we watched            her apartment standing right beyond the fire’s red            line but never crossingin. As if after evacuating            the home, one next empties hope. I …

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.