Cincinnati Review

miCRo: “Mercado de Sabado por la Noche; Con Barbie Negra como Plato de Entrada,” by Kathy Z. Price

Posted by Cincinnati Review | Aug 22, 2018 | miCRo

Managing Editor Lisa Ampleman: The opening of this prose poem dazzles with description of...

miCRo: “Old-Growth Forest” by Catie Rosemurgy

Posted by Cincinnati Review | Aug 15, 2018 | miCRo

Managing Editor Lisa Ampleman: This hybrid, elliptical piece draws from the language of fairy...

miCRo: “From the Minister of the Cabinet of Admonition,” by Stephanie Ellis Schlaifer

Posted by Cincinnati Review | Aug 8, 2018 | miCRo

Managing Editor Lisa Ampleman: In this poem—from her series imagining different cabinet members...

In Celebration of National Dance Day, July 28

Posted by Cincinnati Review | Jul 27, 2018 | From our Contributors

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...

Contest Moved to August

Posted by Cincinnati Review | Jul 5, 2018 | Contests

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...

Why We Like It: How to Celebrate National Days: Instructions for Enjoying Pseudoholidays, by Marie Kare

Posted by Cincinnati Review | Jul 4, 2018 | Why We Like It

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...

“National Pen Pal Day,” by Marie Kare

Posted by Cincinnati Review | Jul 3, 2018 | Samples

(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...