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 …
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 …
Managing Editor Lisa Ampleman: Today’s miCRo is a lively poem with surprising turns of diction and syntax, as nouns mutate into verbs and adjectives. As the title indicates, the poem is aware of itself as poem but isn’t limited by that conceit; it’s not a proverbial noisy gong but an energetic dance. Holy mackerel, …
Assistant Editor Caitlin Doyle: In “The Sun,” Alex Dimitrov explores both the beauty and peril inherent in the sun’s “exacting brightness,” a light that simultaneously brings revelation and threatens annihilation. Dimitrov’s sun acts as a figurative gauge of the tension between concealment and exposure in our emotional lives. If many humans through the ages …
Associate Editor James Ellenberger: What young kid isn’t enthralled with the world of enormous old bones that were once thunder lizards? In mixing dinosaur-themed language and imagery with that of baseball, Jonathan Riccio urges us consider the many histories that make us, well, us. I’m particularly fond of how, in resisting one history for …
Assistant Editor Molly Reid: This piece of flash nonfiction pulls no stops. Despite the apology of the title, Jenifer Lawrence lays the scene for us with raw, unapologetic honesty. Through juxtaposition—a dead decapitated seal found on a beach and a fraught moment between the speaker and her son—Lawrence digs into feelings of regret and …
Editorial Assistant Madeleine Wattenberg: I fell asleep halfway through reading Kim Kyung Ju’s I Am a Season That Does Not Exist in the World (Black Ocean, 2016) and dreamed that a neon pink cobra hid in my shoe and bit my big toe. I mention this both because it is not unlike what it feels like …
Managing Editor Lisa Ampleman: In Katie Cortese’s deft hands, this story juxtaposes the greatest kinds of loss with the mundane details of a life lived in the aftermath. Medieval torture shares a paragraph with the limitations of automatic doors at a gym, and “Windex and elbow-length rubber gloves” show up near the memory of a funeral. …
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