It is with complicated emotions that we announce that Don Bogen will be stepping down as poetry editor of the magazine. Don has served The Cincinnati Review for just over thirteen years. During that time, he has worked with grace, intelligence, and precise vision in choosing and shaping the poetry in our magazine’s pages, poems …
Editorial Assistant Emily Rose Cole: There is little said in Mary Ruefle’s Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures (Wave Books, 2012) that I don’t wholeheartedly agree with. In fact, Ruefle’s meditations on craft put into words many truths I have always believed about poetry but could never fully articulate. In the essay “On Secrets,” for …
In our Issue 14.2, we feature a stunning story by Yxta Maya Murray, “YouTube Comment 2 to Video of I Like America and America Likes Me by Joseph Beuys.” When we read and copyedited the story (read an excerpt here), we experienced it almost as a hybrid piece, with such developed descriptions of performance art …
[Editor’s Note: Today’s miCRo is a special New Year’s treat; we’ll be back with more short, tasty miCRo pieces later in January. Happy New Year!] Assistant Editor Caitlin Doyle: In “new year’s poem,” G.C. Waldrep engages with the work of Joseph Cornell, a visual artist known for his surrealist-influenced assemblages that incorporate found materials. Waldrep’s …
Editorial Assistant Austin Allen: Inger Christensen’s Alphabet (New Directions, 2001) is a book that made me hesitate at first, then won me over. Its inventive structure, based on the Fibonacci sequence (the number of lines in each section follow the pattern 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, etc.), impressed me as both clever and challenging, …
[Editors’ note: The miCRo feature will take a month-long hiatus, with the exception of a special New Year’s Day poem. Thank you for your support in 2017; see you in 2018!] Managing Editor Lisa Ampleman: As we told her when we accepted “Earthling,” Doris Cheng clearly trusts her readers as she weaves her flash …
In our current issue, we feature a story by Siân Griffiths, “Wooden Spoons,” which describes a man watching his estranged daughter on a cooking competition. Today, to accompany the story, we offer you Griffiths’s “Scones: A Recipe,” just in time for baking for Saint Lucia’s Day or your next holiday party. Enjoy! …
Leonard hadn’t seen his only child since the night ten years ago when he pulled her out of a flaming car. His wife had been dead for a week and he’d been tired for years, but as Leonard pulled Leslie from the fire, he felt strong. He could barely remember that feeling now, any more …
Assistant Editor Molly Reid: In Mahreen Sohail’s hybrid piece, “Iddat,” a definition evolves. What seems initially to be prohibitive—a list of men a widow is required to avoid during the prescribed Islamic period of mourning—becomes celebratory, a reclamation of self. With incantatory grace, Sohail takes us into a pleasantly shaded corner of what might …
Editorial Assistant Alex Evans: The realities of being a graduate student in creative writing are such that I have very little time to read outside of my coursework. However, for the past few months, I’ve been using whatever spare moments I can find to revisit some of my favorite novels and collections of the past few …
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