Cincinnati Review

A story by Kevin McIlvoy, who died in September, introduced by Sebastian Matthews.

Leslie Lindsay chats with CR contributor Su Cho about her debut poetry collection, The Symmetry of Fish. Juxtaposing Korean and English, ocean and prairie, parent and child, Cho’s poetry, like water, takes an unpredictable path.

How do we choose a poem’s final, resounding lines?

Writer Aleyna Rentz discusses her job writing factual science-based social media content in a world plagued by misinformation.

Journalist Alison Stine shares her experiences: “Writing in another form, whatever it is, will always help you return to your instrument stronger and with new awareness.”

I spent minutes just staring at the cursor blink at me: an infinite tally for the time I was wasting, a constant little wound scarring the page I couldn’t dare to fill.