We’re looking forward to the AWP Conference & Bookfair, starting on Thursday! You can find us at Booth 7069, along with our book-publishing arm, Acre Books. Stop by to say hello, buy a sample issue, or renew your subscription. Every subscription—including the 4-for-1 $40 deal we’re sponsoring with The Journal, Mid-American Review, and Ninth Letter—comes …
Every year, we find it hard to whittle down the list of our own Pushcart nominations to just six pieces from the print journal and our miCRo series (see our list for this year here), and every March, we feel thrilled to hear about another round of nominations from our pages, this time from contributing …
Associate Editor Molly Reid: It’s proofreading time here at The Cincinnati Review, which means we have our colored pencils out and our screens open to The Chicago Manual of Style. It also means we have a chance to do a deep read of the entire 16.1 issue. In addition to the joy of finding errors …
Editorial Assistant Cara Dees: Alessandra Lynch’s third poetry collection, Daylily Called It a Dangerous Moment (Alice James Books, 2017), navigates the trauma of surviving rape, the insatiability and pervasive cruelty of rape culture, and the speaker’s search for a voice as she insists on her own survival and story, to “nearly convinc[e] myself recursiveness / …
So, what exactly are we looking for when we read through miCRo submissions?
Associate Editor Caitlin Doyle: As spring approaches and new books of poetry make their way into print, many of them by first-time authors, we’re abuzz in the CR office about debut collections from the recent past that have held us in thrall. In celebration of the season, I’m happy to highlight The Taxidermist’s Cut by …
When we mail out each issue to contributors, we encourage them to let us know if they’d like to expand the context for their work in our pages, via our blog. For Issue 15.2, we’ve heard from several writers; the latest is Sophie Klahr, who’s interested in explaining the impetus behind her two poems in …
Associate Editor Molly Reid: We first had the pleasure of featuring Jolene McIlwain’s work in our miCRo series. Her story “Drumming” captures a tender moment in a diner between Dusty, who works behind the counter, and Elbert, a customer and former classmate. Because of the deft, subtle narrative maneuverings, these characters remain with the reader …
While we’re wary of the fashion trend toward “short shorts and long jackets”, we’re thrilled about short literary things.
But why choose a flip-book and not, say, the traditional page breaks of a lyric essay?
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