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Contributor Kaveh Bassiri describes his process writing the poems in his chapbook Elementary English, two of which appeared in our fall issue.

In this video essay, Barbara Tran describes the inspiration behind her poem “Red O” (published in Issue 17.2) against the visual backdrop of two circling hawks.

Contributor Kailyn McCord on the experiences behind her essay in our pages and on crafting subjects in nonfiction.

Dan Albergotti’s poem “Earth Shovel” asks us to think deeply about the way we inhabit Earth in a time when oil is money, and drilling becomes commonplace despite its environmental costs.

Editorial Assistant Haley Crigger interviews Danielle Evans about Evans about the project of The Office of Historical Corrections, the role of risk and humor in fiction, and affirming Blackness in narrative.

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An interview with Daniella Badra: “I wrote almost three hundred contrapuntals just with my sister. That’s all I wrote, almost every day, because I was obsessed and I was grief-ridden.”

We here at The Cincinnati Review are thrilled to showcase an exciting new collaboration with Reading and Drinking: A Cocktail Blog!

We’re thrilled to share our nominations for this year’s Pushcart Prize Anthology, Best Microfiction, and Best Small Fictions.

In “Master’s Mirror,” Steinorth reminds us that the purpose of erasure poetry isn’t to erase, but the opposite—it is to reveal what has already been obscured.