It’s a banner day at The Cincinnati Review offices—not only do we get to come back to work after a long holiday weekend away, but our latest issue has arrived. Subscribers should see it in the mail soon, and we’re sending out digital subscriptions today too. Issue 15.1 is chock-full of literary goodness: our …
As hollow as a gutted fish, a hole in the sand, a cistern cracked along the seam— There is no filling such emptiness. And yet— Stitch it shut. Pour and pour, if you wish. Wish and wish, but it’s wasted— Water carried to the garden in your cupped palms. Might as well seal an ember …
What was done was done in our names; we ourselves would never have done what was done to anyone. We wanted to be good, polite, obedient, fun, wanted only not to ever ask What have we done? And yet, in our names, what was done was done. See more poems from Issue 15.1 by …
Managing Editor Lisa Ampleman: As I prepared this post for publication a few weeks ago, I wondered if this poem would seem too timely on its publication date. Kelle Groom’s “River of Grass” includes specific details that remind us of the tragedy at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, but—of course—in the …
We expect Issue 15.1 to ship from the printer any day now! Local folks, we’d love to see you at the launch party on Friday, June 1, at Caza Sikes Gallery in Oakley; the event doubles as the gallery opening for an exhibit of new work by Dewey Blocksma, the featured artist in the …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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