The Life of a Submission #2
Want to know what happens to the poems or story you send our way? Another episode of the Life of a Submission! (If you like our content, subscribe to our YouTube channel! New videos every Tuesday and Friday . . .)
Cincinnati Review
A Question for Sarah Rose Nordgren
Today on Cincinnati RevYouTube: part 1 of Phoebe Reeves’s interview with Sarah Rose Nordgren!
What’s Poetry Got to Do with It?: Tarot
Musings by José Angel Araguz Episode 5: Tarot In this episode, I do a quick study of the ways I see tarot being connected to poetry. As tarot is more complex than can be contained in one blog post, I will focus on my personal experiences with two cards in particular and how I see …
A Literary Proposal
In which an enterprising stranger wanders into our office . . .
Our First Video Poem!
Today on Cincinnati RevYouTube, we present our video version of one of many delightful poems by contributor Jeannine Hall Gailey—read, of course, by JHG herself!
From Birth to Death: Robert Foreman and Anatoly Molotkov
Writers are consummate observers: we stand to the side, notebooks in hand, pencils behind our ears, eager to see and understand the world around us. In issue 13.1, two contributors take on the task of processing the most universal human experiences—birth and death—and they do it by attempting to remain above the fray even as …
A Question for Brock Clarke
Today on Cincinnati RevYouTube, Don Peteroy interrogates former fiction editor and somewhat successful writer [<–joke] Brock Clarke. One may think, looking at Brock’s creds, that he’s has little in common with the rest of us schlubs, but we’re here to tell you that Brock shares many of the characteristics of regular people. For example, he’s …
The Life of a Submission
For today’s YouTube video, we offer you a look at a submission’s journey through our reading process. CR is a teaching program. Each term, we take on new volunteers (from UC’s pool of PhD and MA candidates), have them read ten to twenty manuscripts per week, and assess these using our scoring rubric, which runs …
The Art of Experience: Catherine Staples and Angela Ball
Is poetry a pool filter that needs to be cleaned out? How can we transmute our day-to-day detritus into poetry? Two of our contributors from 13.1 grapple with how to explore and write about experiences both external and internal. Catherine Staples, in detailing the events and images that resulted in “Like a Sleeve of Arctic Air,” …
CR on YouTube
Unveiling . . . our YouTube channel! If you were one of those folks who attended the launch of Acre Books at Books by the Banks this past weekend, you saw an extended trailer that included a snippet of an author interview, a visualized poem (voem? pideo?), insight into our process of submission assessment, and …