Cincinnati Review

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 …

Source text: Fascinating Womanhood by Helen Andelin, originally self-published in 1963. These erasures were composed upon pages of the mass-market paperback, published by Random House, 1982. See more poems from Issue 19.2, including two more erasures by Huffaker, by purchasing a copy in our online store. Digital copies only $5

See more poems from Issue 19.2 (including another poem by crawford) by purchasing a copy in our online store. Digital copies only $5. (To see the poem in its ideal orientation, use the double arrows on the top right-hand side to rotate clockwise. Arrows on the top left can also help you navigate to all …

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Gliding like giant fish past our villa, sometimes Dubai’s city buses, with their whirring, unsettle me—the long sigh of the air conditioning let out as exits unfold their mechanical arms and passengers spill onto the sidewalk. When we first arrived in the United Arab Emirates eighteen months ago for my husband’s job, I tried hard …