Managing Editor Lisa Ampleman: Becky Hagenston’s “Star Girl” feels like a cousin to another piece in our miCRo series, Doris Cheng’s “Earthling,” a story that features a teenager who thinks she might be an extraterrestrial. In Becky Hagenston’s hands, the concern with aliens takes a different turn: The “Star Girl” of the title was …
In Issue 20.1, we present a craft review feature celebrating the art of extraordinary writing. The feature was inspired by Holly Goddard Jones’s “Unreasonably Good Stories: Breaking the Competency Ceiling,” which we printed in excerpted form in the issue (available with the entire feature here) but provide here in full: I teach in an MFA …
We’ve heard a lot of good news lately, including that a poem from our miCRo series, “Iraq Good” by Hugh Martin, was chosen as a Pushcart Prize winner and will appear in The Pushcart Prize XLIII: Best of the Small Presses, 2019 edition! Assistant Editor Caitlin Doyle said in her introduction of “Iraq Good” that …
When my father could no longer live independently in the home where I was raised, my brother and I cleared the place out and sold it. My brother claimed a bounty of bric-a-brac from the house, including two sets of dinnerware, a snowblower, and my mother’s wedding dress. Over and over again, he and his …
Managing Editor Lisa Ampleman: What does a English Renaissance–era writer have to do with contemporary race relations? In this poem, Joshua Kryah brings together a reconsideration of the playwright and poet Ben Jonson, who once killed a man in a duel, and a contemporary scene in which a neighbor with ready racist comments also …
Where there was a meadow,a shore. Wouldn’t that be beautiful, he thought— to return by sea, which of course implies leaving, or a kind of reliefif we can allow it. And it’s true, the beginning of a painting may also be the beginning of a room. How we followed the canvas toward a doorand there …
Editorial Assistant Ankit Basnet: Over the years, I have grown fond of reading book-length poems. And the projects that always draw me in are, unsurprisingly, sonnet sequences, often favored by contemporary American poets experimenting with poetic forms. The sonnet never goes out of vogue because it stands the test of time. Its shape is so …
Managing Editor Lisa Ampleman: This piece is part of a unique new genre: the literary nonfiction short-short, alive with detail, and immediate in its use of the present tense. “Honeycomb” is narrated by a child (with a skillful indication that the events happened thirty years ago), but the intense emotion behind the speaker’s loss …
(To use the PDF embedder to see all pages of the poem, use the arrows on the bottom left-hand side.) See more poems by Rader and others from Issue 20.1 by purchasing a copy in our online store. Digital copies only $5.
Whew—we did it: We converted the entire print run of The Cincinnati Review, including out-of-print classics like Issue 2.2 and Issue 13.2, to digital versions—both epub and PDF . Now that each issue of the CR exists as 1s and 0s, you can add them to your e-reading queue. In celebration, all 28 issues are …
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