Cincinnati Review

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.

Arthur Kayzakian’s compact ekphrastic prose poem “Anna Walinska” navigates big-picture questions of art and consumption.

Two essays that grapple with the place of women in history, specifically an enslaved Native ancestor and a prehistoric “greatest grandmother.”