Cincinnati Review

In Nicholas Mainieri’s lean, lyrical story, a fishing trip between a boy and his father offers startling revelations about our place in the world and truths that run deeper than language.

In Nicholas Mainieri’s lean, lyrical story, a fishing trip between a boy and his father offers startling revelations about our place in the world and truths that run deeper than language.

In Soleil David’s poem “The Taegukgi on a Bus Ride from Apgujeong to Gyeongnidan” a flag caught on a side mirror inspires questions about devotion and belonging.

Steven Espada Dawson’s sonnet about the Los Angeles area creates a compelling scene about the complexity of the lost Eden.

In the short, clipped sentences and fragments of “Superjap,” KJ Nakazawa-Kern narrates an uncle and nephew’s trip to Japan.

In an era of political division, this imaginative poem by Martha Silano details a literal division of the US back in the Cretaceous period.

In the prose poem “34D,” Dorothy Chan uses a number and a letter to conjure up particular images that the poem both mentions and undercuts, in a statement about the poetics of sex.