Associate Editor James Ellenberger: It’s rather incredible how dense and interesting a relationship Zambrano explores in such a short space. Part of that, I think, lies in the author’s ability to plant details in way that feels simultaneously cyclical and progressive, much in a way that a villanelle’s repetitions build and build as the …
The time has come when word-lovers of all varieties flock to the annual Association of Writers & Writing Program Conference. We relish meeting our readers, contributors, submitters, and subscribers at AWP each year, and we’re as galvanized as ever to make our way to Tampa in just a few days. Here’s what we’ll be up …
Here at The Cincinnati Review, we’re approaching the end of our submission period, so we’re eager to share a final reminder with you. The deadline by which you can submit work for the journal is today: Thursday, March 1 (by 11:59 Eastern time). Time is running out, and we’re itching to get our hands on …
We’re looking forward to this event on Thursday at 7:30! CR contributor Marcus Wicker will be reading poems and giving a lecture about “Poetry as Protest and Social Activism.” Join us at the Mercantile Library, a beautiful library on the 11th floor of 414 Walnut in downtown Cincinnati. Two poems of Wicker’s, “Tiki Torch Cookout …
Associate Editor James Ellenberger: I love hitchhiking scenes in poems and stories. There’s something marvelously dramatic about two strangers putting their trust in each other, if even only for the next fifty miles. Here, matter-of-fact narration (“The woman climbed in”) is met with the phantasmagoric transformation that closes the piece. Of all of the …
Assistant Editor Molly Reid: As a lover of flash fiction, I was elated to start my first year with the Cincinnati Review just as it was rolling out miCRo, the magazine’s online short-form feature. In six months, we’ve published 18 stellar pieces of fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and hybrid work. Our guidelines are fairly open: “For …
Assistant Editor Caitlin Doyle: It’s a joy to present the first double feature in our miCRo series, a pair of interrelated flash essays, “The Rape of Europa” and “Incensing the Veil,” by Lesley Jenike. In these sharp-eyed and stirring pieces, we’re prompted to view art as a dance of veils, a titillating push-and-pull between obfuscation …
Associate Editor James Ellenberger: In celebration of the release of 14.2, we’re having another cento contest! The cento is a collage form in which a poem is composed entirely of lines from other poems. It can be an homage to the originals, a subversive twist, or just a fun game. Contemporary examples of the form …
Assistant Editor Molly Reid: America is no stranger to appropriation. It is, some might say, part of our country’s DNA. Whether it’s the latest in sports mascots or our president’s decision to reduce national monuments and open pipelines on native land, it’s clear that we have a long way to go in terms of …
We are pleased to share a video of the University of Cincinnati’s 2017-2018 Elliston Poet-in-Residence Amit Majmudar. Each year, supported by the Elliston Poetry Fund, our Department of English and Comparative Literature brings a distinguished poet to UC’s campus to give public lectures, readings, and master classes, while also conducting poetry workshops and seminars. Celebrated …
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