We’re looking forward to the AWP Conference & Bookfair, starting on Thursday! You can find us at Booth 7069, along with our book-publishing arm, Acre Books. Stop by to say hello, buy a sample issue, or renew your subscription. Every subscription—including the 4-for-1 $40 deal we’re sponsoring with The Journal, Mid-American Review, and Ninth Letter—comes …
Every year, we find it hard to whittle down the list of our own Pushcart nominations to just six pieces from the print journal and our miCRo series (see our list for this year here), and every March, we feel thrilled to hear about another round of nominations from our pages, this time from contributing …
[Editors’ note: This will be our last miCRo until early April; we’re taking two weeks off for spring break and the AWP Conference. Hope to see you there!] Associate Editor Molly Reid: For this week’s miCRo, Molia Dumbleton leans into strange, which is my favorite kind of leaning in. In the developing relationship between Nunzio …
Associate Editor Molly Reid: It’s proofreading time here at The Cincinnati Review, which means we have our colored pencils out and our screens open to The Chicago Manual of Style. It also means we have a chance to do a deep read of the entire 16.1 issue. In addition to the joy of finding errors …
Associate Editor Caitlin Doyle: In “Telling,” May-lee Chai explores how the stories passed down in a family can traverse the devastating intergenerational effects of domestic violence within multiple narratives that portray the aggressor—in this case, the speaker’s grandfather—as both a positive figure and an abuser. As “Telling” unfolds, we learn that the descendants of this …
Editorial Assistant Cara Dees: Alessandra Lynch’s third poetry collection, Daylily Called It a Dangerous Moment (Alice James Books, 2017), navigates the trauma of surviving rape, the insatiability and pervasive cruelty of rape culture, and the speaker’s search for a voice as she insists on her own survival and story, to “nearly convinc[e] myself recursiveness / …
Associate Editor Molly Reid: In Angie Ellis’s story, the narrator insists on protagonist Rosemary’s well-being through the use of a passive-aggressive negation (“Rosemary does not avoid her reflection in the hall mirror when she passes. She is not afraid to be disappointed. She is, please understand, not so shallow.”) But this technique doesn’t flatten the …
Assistant Editor Jess Jelsma Masterton: For me, much of the pleasure of the lyric essay comes from what Sven Birkerts dubs “counterpointed perspectives” in his craft book The Art of Time in Memoir: Then, Again.
Associate Editor Caitlin Doyle: As spring approaches and new books of poetry make their way into print, many of them by first-time authors, we’re abuzz in the CR office about debut collections from the recent past that have held us in thrall. In celebration of the season, I’m happy to highlight The Taxidermist’s Cut by …
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