Enjoy our third weekly installment of “Why We Like It.” Our first and second posts explain what it’s all about, so scroll down and check those out. This week, we ran into fiction writer and PhD student Leah McCormack at the Cincinnati Zoo, wearing a hi-tech headband, talking excitedly to the simians. We asked the …
Here’s the second installment in the weekly blog post we’re calling “Why we Like it.” The first post, by Jason Nemec, explains what it’s all about. This week, poet and UC PhD student Les Kay perched on top of our swaying, manuscript-stuffed filing cabinets to sing the praises of Hailey Leithauser’s “Schadenfreude” from our summer …
Just for kicks, here is a list of trends that we’ve been noticing in our submission stacks lately: Stories set in the 50s and 60s: It’s fun to insist that this is due to the popularity of Madmen, even if it’s not true. Stories about ghosts: And we published one of these—Micah Riecker’s “The Drowned …
Here in our dusty corner of McMicken Hall, our ragtag group of editors, faculty, and graduate-student volunteers spend a lot of time passing around and discussing the work writers send us. Sometimes one of us stands on a rickety chair and effuses ebulliently about a manuscript he or she likes. Those are fun times, and …
As you already know, if you’ve been following, we’ve been posting bonus material all month, to hold our readers over until the winter 2011 issue arrives (any day now!). We asked all the writers in our summer issue to tell us about the ideas that lead to their poems, stories, and essays. Below are the …
The winter 2011 issue is at the press! In the meantime, enjoy some bonus material. We asked all the writers in our summer issue to tell us about the ideas that lead to their poems, stories, and essays. We’ll be posting their comments all month, until the new issue is out. Here’s what Henry Rappaport, …
The winter 2011 issue is at the press! In the meantime, enjoy some bonus material. We asked all the writers in our summer issue to tell us about the ideas that lead to their poems, stories, and essays. We’ll be posting their comments all month, until the new issue is out. Here’s what D. A. …
The winter 2011 issue is at the press! In the meantime, enjoy some bonus material. We asked all the writers in our summer issue to tell us about the ideas that lead to their poems, stories, and essays. We’ll be posting their comments all month, until the new issue is out. Here’s what Christopher Merkner, …
While we wait for the winter 2011 issue (out next month!), we’ve assembled some great bonus material from our summer 2010 issue. We asked all the writers in issue 7.1 to tell us about the ideas that lead to their poems, stories, and essays. We’ll be posting their comments all month, until the new issue …
Don Bogen on Ashley Seitz Kramer’s Prize-Winning Poem: What I especially admire in “Winter Storyboard” is the way it builds. There’s a sense of confidence and deft control behind the rhetoric and varied syntax here, and the pacing is exquisite. With each couplet we are led deeper into a world of nature, the eccentric, and …
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