Cincinnati Review

To be a child again. Is my wish. Something earthy and pleasant. Something before knowledge. Before. Me and the kids down the street making wooden gravestones with our names on them for Halloween, before we knew that one kid would die. How the gravestones lived with us years after, in the garage. Childhood, like a …

We are pleased to share the entire special feature from Issue 19.2 with craft essays about and reviews of anthologies, including the following pieces: (To use the PDF embedder to see additional pages, use the arrows on the bottom left-hand side.)

We are pleased to share this review by Emma Hudelson of Horse Girls: Recovering, Aspiring, and Devoted Riders Redefine the Iconic Bond, which appeared in Issue 19.2 as part of a special multigenre review and essay feature on anthologies (read the entire feature here): Horse Girls: Recovering, Aspiring, and Devoted Riders Redefine the Iconic Bond. …

We are pleased to share this review by Jess Barbagallo of The Methuen Drama Book of Trans Plays, which appeared in Issue 19.2 as part of a special multigenre review and essay feature on anthologies (read the entire feature here): The Methuen Drama Book of Trans Plays. Eds. Leanna Keyes, Lindsey Mantoan, and Angela Farr …

We are pleased to share this craft essay by Gary Jackson on the process of creating an anthology, which appeared in Issue 19.2 as part of a special multigenre review and essay feature on anthologies (read the entire feature here): The Future of Black: Afrofuturism, Black Comics, and Superhero Poetry. Eds. Len Lawson, Cynthia Manick, …

We are pleased to share this craft essay by Emily Pérez and Nancy Reddy on the process of creating an anthology, which appeared in Issue 19.2 as part of a special multigenre review and essay feature on anthologies (read the entire feature here): The Long Devotion: Poets Writing Motherhood. Eds. Emily Pérez and Nancy Reddy. …

banish the word offering—i prefer payment ur likes are insincere at dream state university guests may enjoy warm seltzer hollow skies my soiled vuitton panties it’s a family affair i love appearing as epigraphs in ur messy poems this may surprise u but i was horrible at woodshop sometimes i feel like a gorilla in …

in memory of Alex Pacas (19) and Wyatt Whitebread (14), who died in a grain silo owned by Consolidated Grain and Barge in Mount Carroll, Illinois, on July 28, 2010             The view was all in linesStraight up and down of tall slim treesToo much alike to mark or name a place bySo as to …

Blank peal of a glass door in the archive of memory,you want nothing or you fear nothing, breath is the daughteryou never had. Escape offers its temporary attention, gazeset permanently on some middle distance at which a bridgecan be made out, dimly, to burn. I stepped ontothe archaeological site with a confidence borne of schematics …