I was first drawn to Taneum Bambrick’s full-length debut Vantage (Copper Canyon, 2019) because it had “an ecological eye,” but after reading the collection, I realize how much of a disservice it is to characterize this book solely as environmentally urgent.
My family feared white people. White people, after all, danced on our newly paved driveway, leaving gym-shoe footprints. White people threw rocks and rotten eggs at our windows. White people stole my family’s first big purchase, a ’72 Thunderbird that was found two months later—stripped—in a steakhouse parking lot off Cicero Avenue. White people were …
I noted that I’d been writing the stories I wanted, kind of, but I’d also been including other people’s ideas of blackness. I started writing stories that contradicted some folks’s view of blackness but felt true to my actual world and my created ones.
We’d like to recognize our editorial assistants, the volunteer readers who contribute their time and cognitive energies to our literary endeavor, without payment. We’d also like to share some of the kinds of comments that happen throughout the reading process
In “Next to Us: Sonnets Divided,” Sanchez skillfully considers what it means to be both simultaneously inside and outside acts of violence.
I came across many well-meaning flash fiction “Do and Don’t” lists all of which managed, without fail, to piss me off.
Frequent CR contributor Julianna Baggott has constructed a dark and all-too-believable morality tale about gun violence in schools. The light tone of the young narrator belies the eerie circumstances the schoolchildren experience in the name of safety.
Translations play an integral role in our reading experience, but we don’t get many translation submissions. In this piece, I explore how a beginner might get started in translation, with help from Lily Meyer.
Winners of the Eleventh Annual Robert and Adele Schiff Awards in Poetry and Prose:
Bernard Ferguson for his poem “you’re welcome” and Julie Marie Wade for her essay “Perfect Hands”
To learn more about the problems underlying disability tropes and metaphors, I turned to Emily Rose Cole, previous Cincinnati Review editorial assistant and current PhD candidate in English and Disability Studies at University of Cincinnati.
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