Cincinnati Review

In “Lighthouse,” work is inextricably linked to place: a place to which the speaker is a newcomer, with no ties to bind them to the landscape.

A prose poem with nearly breathless syntax and a subtle build of rhetoric.

Former contributor Nicholas Wong masterfully translates Chen Poyu’s haunting poem.

Matt Barrett’s story about knife sellers begins with a book being cut down the spine and builds to a meditation on the weight and heft of words.

Like Jay Gatsby or the Lisbon Girls, the mushroom at the center of “Reclamation” wholly occupies the narrator’s–and, in turn the reader’s–attention.