Cincinnati Review

An Interview with Jolene McIlwain!

An Interview with Jolene McIlwain!

Associate Editor Molly Reid: We first had the pleasure of featuring Jolene McIlwain’s work in our miCRo series. Her story “Drumming” captures a tender moment in a diner between Dusty, who works behind the counter, and Elbert, a customer and former classmate. Because of the deft, subtle narrative maneuverings, these characters remain with the reader …

What We’re Reading: Victoria Chang’s Barbie Chang

What We’re Reading: Victoria Chang’s Barbie Chang

Editorial Assistant Chelsea Whitton: “Someone says it is difficult to write poems / that are both domestic and ambitious,” writes Victoria Chang in Barbie Chang (Copper Canyon, 2017), her fourth collection. This book rejects the implication that domestic poems—work about childbearing and rearing, about caring for one’s aging parents, about social anxiety and the link …

Meet Guest Literary Nonfiction Editor Lee Martin!

Meet Guest Literary Nonfiction Editor Lee Martin!

We’re pleased as punch to announce the tenure of our second guest literary nonfiction editor this year (Literary Nonfiction Editor Kristen Iversen was awarded a Taft Center Fellowship for the 2018–19 academic year and is on sabbatical). Starting this week, through mid-June, Lee Martin will read submitted essays and curate our literary nonfiction section for …

A Broadside of Rose McLarney’s “Old Road

A Broadside of Rose McLarney’s “Old Road

After each issue lands in readers’ hands, we encourage our contributors to say a little bit on our blog about their work. For issue 15.2, our first such post comes from poet Rose McLarney, who worked with artist Gary Hawkins on a broadside of her poem “Old Road” from our pages, as described below: Rose …

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