Managing Editor Lisa Ampleman: In this poem—from her series imagining different cabinet members who preside over particular parts of the pysche—Stephanie Ellis Schlaifer scrutinizes the challenges of speech, in particular where our words come from. In spare lines, carefully lineated, we see the results of a divine gift of fire: Not so much “let there …
A few weeks ago on the blog, we featured an appreciation of Marie Kare’s short-shorts, a series called How to Celebrate National Days. As additional bonus content, in honor of National Dance Day (the final Saturday in July), here’s one more installment of the series: National Dance Day July 28, 2018 (Last Saturday in …
If you regularly enter our summer contest, you might be feeling bereft right now. Where are the Robert and Adele Schiff Award options on the CR’s online submission manager? How can I send you the poem, story, or essay that’s been burning a hole in my pocket—well, file folder? No fear: This summer, we’ve moved …
Assistant Editor Maggie Su: The excerpts from Marie Kare’s series How to Celebrate National Holidays: Instructions for Enjoying Pseudoholidays featured in CR Issue 15.1 offer absurd reimaginings of commercialized celebrations such as “National Pen Pal Day,” “National Gingerbread Day,” “National Higher Education Day,” “National Best Friends Day,” and “National Handshake Day.” Using imperatives in each …
(From the series How to Celebrate National Days: Instructions for Enjoying Pseudoholidays) June 1, 2018 Think back to when you were a kid and you’d give the classroom globe a spin, stop it with your fingertip, and vow to move to whatever location you landed on. Recall how sometimes you’d hit the ocean and have …
[Editors’ note: We’re hitting the pause button on our miCRo feature for the steamy vacation month of July, so this is our last piece until August. See you then!] Managing Editor Lisa Ampleman: James Davis May’s carefully crafted poem below takes the abstract studies of ornithology and gender studies, and makes them particular: A singular …
Assistant Editor Maggie Su: This searing poem by Hussian Ahmed centers around the issue of child witch hunting in Africa. If accused of witchcraft, a child can be subjected to abuse, abandonment, trafficking, or rape. Ahmed skillfully imagines the rich interior life of a child forced to endure under the worst possible circumstances. Ahmed’s speaker swings …
Assistant Editor Maggie Su: A writing professor once told me that novels span decades, short stories last weeks, and microfictions are concerned with eternity. This adage holds true for Mark Wagenaar’s “The Gift.” At just four hundred words, the story details a woman’s supernatural ability to touch objects and know the names of their …
Managing Editor Lisa Ampleman: The prose poem was born in rebellion, from surrealistic parents. It grew up nourished by juxtapositions, associative movement, a direct statement followed by a non sequitur. It studied intermediate lyrical techniques and the controversy between ragged-right or force-justified text in graduate school. And here, in Maureen Seaton’s hands, it takes …
Managing Editor Lisa Ampleman: We’re big fans of ghost stories here at The Cincinnati Review; Assistant Editor Molly Reid explained that well in a blog post last fall, highlighting stories from issue 14.2 that fell into that category. Since then, we’ve also featured another sort of ghost story on miCRo, Katie Cortese’s “Neat Freak,” …
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