excerpt from “Sunshine Skyway” by Tierney Oberhammer
“The peephole is installed backward,” my one-night stand said as I sat up in bed. We were in his...
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“The peephole is installed backward,” my one-night stand said as I sat up in bed. We were in his...
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“Father would guard the door, saying
Don’t go in there, your mother is busy
She will be out soon”
Posted by Cincinnati Review | Nov 22, 2023 | miCRo
In this holiday tale we ride along with the inhabitants of a toy railroad through scraps of the narrator’s own family history.
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Two poems by an exiled Iraqi poet that blend the everyday with the horrors of war.
Read MorePosted by Cincinnati Review | Nov 10, 2023 | Special Features
Ginger Ko complicates what it can mean to say “Me too” in an essay about familial abuse.
Read MorePosted by Cincinnati Review | Nov 8, 2023 | miCRo
Winshen Liu’s poem “Lunch Break” interrogates hunger and sustenance.
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Natalie Villacorta talks about how working with children at WordPlay Cincy and Oyler High School helped her see her own writing practices.
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MoPoetry Phillips discusses the power of writing therapy for those who have experienced trauma as well as for those in the corporate world.
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L. S. Klatt on poet Kenneth Koch’s relationship to the city where he grew up.
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Tyrone Williams on failed attempts to integrate Cincinnati’s literary scene
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