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…
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In this moment of collective grief, I’ve been thinking about how any individual griefs are heightened by the circumstances.
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In “Pepe’s Curse,” Jessica Franken captures the complex reality of being a woman in public.
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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…
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As part of our series From Our Contributors, Rage Hezekiah explains the background behind her poem “Sex Education.”
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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.
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“Modernity is a rust factory,” Sun Yung Shin declares in “Detonations,” a poem in which the technology of war brutally contrasts a natural landscape.
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Those of you who have followed the CR for awhile likely know that our summer contest is named for Robert and Adele Schiff, whose names are also on a foundation that gives the magazine a great deal of support. We wanted to take the opportunity to say a little more about them, in particular about Adele, who passed away in late April.
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A microreview of Of Color (McSweeney’s, 2020) and interview with Jaswinder Bolina. “The book is the culmination of almost ten years of accidental prose. ….”
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“As someone who’s become obsessed with space flight lately, I admire how Jaswinder Bolina imagines its future and our future, one in which we—a much more inclusive we—regularly jet to other planets.”
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