Cincinnati Review

Will Musgrove approaches the topic of grief obliquely, from a narrator who imagines a memorial service they don’t attend.

She’s a healthy mussel. . . . She’s a wicked mussel. She’s a sliver of the liver of a river whose liver is sick. An ugly river, voluble with its complaints. I had this story from precisely such a river. Well, and so the credence you accord to trickling notes diluted and caught up in …

A sonnet about plants that almost feel sentient, in a meditation on longing.

A poem for those experiencing climate anxiety, with an unexpected turn in the changing environment

In this piece, Patricia Newbery explores the nexus between memory, time, and space.

David DeGusta foregrounds the mysticism of the personal against the era-defining scientific advancements of the moon landing, using a precisely-rendered long retrospective POV to take us to new and uncharted emotional territory.