Cincinnati Review

W. Todd Kaneko’s “White Hot Star” paints a richly layered portrait of masculine inheritance.

In Jin Su Joo’s “Have You Eaten Rice” we learn about several key relationships in the speaker’s life through the lens of rice.

Allison Field Bell’s “Across the Street” unfolds like the recounting of a distant memory. Through a mosaic of fractured images, we understand pieces of the setting and pieces of the violence that was done there…

In this moment of collective grief, I’ve been thinking about how any individual griefs are heightened by the circumstances.

In “Pepe’s Curse,” Jessica Franken captures the complex reality of being a woman in public.

The formal cleverness of Allison Pitinii Davis’s “The Neighborhood Girls Sabotage the Dairy Queen Order” is hard to overstate. Davis teaches us to read the poem as it goes…

The quiet but deeply uncomfortable tension that permeates Chase Burke’s “Favoring the Nightcap” will be recognizable to anyone who has ever suffered under the hard hand of generational trauma.