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I feel like every time I read the news these days, I log off steaming. There’s so much to be angry about, and with record-breaking heat waves in the Eastern United States, we’re sweltering outside and inside. While I was stewing in front of an AC unit and mulling over some poems, I thought, why …

Emerging writer Stephen Foster Smith on what inspired his poem “The Yam Reflects” and more

Associate Editor Andy Sia: We noticed a number of writers in our recent issue who are in relatively early stages of their publishing career, and reached out to chat with them as a part of our emerging writers series. In a sense, writers are always “emerging,” given the constant self-discovery and self-transformation that happen throughout …

Associate Editor Andy Sia: We noticed a number of writers in our recent issue who are in relatively early stages of their publishing career, and reached out to chat with them as a part of our emerging writers series. In a sense, writers are always “emerging,” given the constant self-discovery and self-transformation that happen throughout …

Associate Editor Kate Jayroe: As Andy and I conclude our graduate assistantships here at CR, we had the opportunity to ask one another some questions and reflect on our experiences. We spoke about editorial philosophies, the work we accomplished together, and words of wisdom for the next cohort. We enjoyed our conversation. We hope you …

Ahead of their reading in Cincinnati on April 23, we chatted with Kathryn Cowles and Donald Revell

Associate Editor Andy Sia: We noticed a number of writers in our upcoming issue who are in relatively early stages of their publishing career, and reached out to chat with them as a part of our emerging writers series. In a sense, writers are always “emerging,” given the constant self-discovery and self-transformation that happen throughout …

In her debut memoir-in-essays, Raised by Ferns, award-winning author Maya Jewell Zeller weaves rich stories of her nontraditional upbringing, the roots of her creativity, and the sources of her strength. The Cincinnati Review says Jewell Zeller’s voice, “both vulnerable and unflinching, carries a lyric precision attuned to the smallest details of time and place, yet …

Joyelle McSweeney on style, grief, and the necropastoral.

Danielle Dutton’s Prairie, Dresses, Art, Other is a collection of surreal stories full of haunted landscapes, literary experiments, and essays on the relationship between art and fiction. In this conversation, Mialise Carney and Danielle Dutton discuss the prairie as a site of dislocation, the process of collecting literary dresses, and how writing could be played …