This week we want to redirect your attention to the work of an important Cincinnati newspaper, Streetvibes, published by the Greater Cincinnati Homeless Coalition.
A take on “Dream Song 31,” Aldana’s poem follows in a long line of erasure poems critiquing a found text—but unlike traditional erasures, “31” reorders elements of the original text.
What does it mean to build writing community in the context of social media’s possibilities and limitations? Former contributors Pauletta Hansel, Jenna Le, JJ Peña, and Ira Sukrungruang share insights.
In order to gather a wider range of perspectives on this question, I reached out to some Cincinnati Review contributors about when it’s time to gather your work and hit “submit.”
Cristi Donoso Best’s “Caul” opens in medias res with the birthing of a calf. As the child-aged speaker observes the scene, the poem moves cinematically between the birth and the act of watching.
Melissa Bowers’s hybrid piece “What I Know About Space” uses descriptions of the cosmos as a distancing tactic, its vignettes functioning as satellites swirling around a deeper issue for the speaker.
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