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.
Proofreading reveals patterns between pieces, resonances that emerge from the collection of distinct voices. For me, it was food.
With the approach of fall, sweaters, apple cider, and pumpkin-spice everything comes the time for literary nominations! We’re excited to share the news that we’ve nominated the following pieces by CR contributors for The Orison Anthology: Karen An-hwei Lee, “Dear Millennium, on the Extinction of Migrant Doves” (poem, 16.1) Brenda Miller, “Chorus” (essay, 16.2) C.T. …
In Kristin George Bagdanov’s debut full-length poetry collection Fossils in the Making (Black Ocean, 2019) it is no coincidence that “gyre” rhymes with “lyre.”
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