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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.

In the spirit of the season, we here at CR thought it might be nice (and cathartic) to pause, take a deep breath, and reflect on some of the best writing advice we are thankful to have received.

An interview with Felicia Zamora. “Photography and poetry help me question human behavior in very distinct and unique ways; they both have lenses that swivel simultaneously outward and inward.”

An interview with Aditi Machado. “I tend to think I became a more interesting writer after, and while, translating Farid Tali’s Prosopopoeia. There’s something about sinking into someone else’s—a different language’s—syntax and sonics that reorients your relationship to your chosen writing language(s).”

I’m resistant to making generalizations about genres. I’m of the general opinion that poetry and fiction use the same ingredients, just with wildly different doses.

Poetry gives me the shivers in part because it carves out new spaces to inhabit, however briefly, and this allows readers to see the world as something new.