Cincinnati Review

In “Re-entry,” Erin Murphy examines the gravitational and emotional forces that guide our lives.

Through erasure of Alice Dunbar-Nelson’s “Sonnet,” footnotes, and white space, “Black Womxn Are Violets” by Johnson-Boria creates a complex portrait of Black womxnhood.

In “Fruit Flies,” Giboba Ramm transforms a mundane problem—a “minor infestation” of fruit flies—into the starting point for a meditation on the consequences of both reproduction and killing.

Leslie Morris’s “Gulf Pass” invites readers to explore the connections between natural and unnatural landscapes.

Travis Chi Wing Lau’s “In the Land of Pain” begins with a self-directive to keep walking while experiencing pain.