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?
Editorial Assistant Chelsea Whitton: “Someone says it is difficult to write poems / that are both domestic and ambitious,” writes Victoria Chang in Barbie Chang (Copper Canyon, 2017), her fourth collection. This book rejects the implication that domestic poems—work about childbearing and rearing, about caring for one’s aging parents, about social anxiety and the link …
We’re pleased as punch to announce the tenure of our second guest literary nonfiction editor this year (Literary Nonfiction Editor Kristen Iversen was awarded a Taft Center Fellowship for the 2018–19 academic year and is on sabbatical). Starting this week, through mid-June, Lee Martin will read submitted essays and curate our literary nonfiction section for …
After each issue lands in readers’ hands, we encourage our contributors to say a little bit on our blog about their work. For issue 15.2, our first such post comes from poet Rose McLarney, who worked with artist Gary Hawkins on a broadside of her poem “Old Road” from our pages, as described below: Rose …
Just a reminder that you have four more days to take advantage of The Cincinnati Review/Acre Books holiday pack! For only $20, you get a one-year subscription to the CR, plus one of two Acre Books titles (your pick): The Strange and True Tale of Horace Wells, Surgeon Dentist: A Novel, by Michael Downs or …
Editorial Assistant Afsheen Farhadi: In issue 15.2‘s “Gil Butsen Ford,” Steve Amick dramatizes the logic of advertising—the promise to deliver happiness as balm for the consumer’s deepest pain. This is found in the language of advertisements, which often use words like love, kindness, family, words out of place, too weighty and meaningful for the exchange …
As the days get shorter and the weather gloomier, we’re staying upbeat with cute animal photos and copious amounts of caffeine, and by reading through our past issues to select nominations for the 2020 Pushcart Prize anthology and for Best Microfiction 2018. The final decisions weren’t easy. We’ve published so many amazing voices over …
Issue 15.2 has arrived in our offices! We’ll be mailing it out to contributors this week, and subscribers will see a nice shrink-wrapped package in their mailboxes sometime soon too. In honor of its release, we’d like to share a special feature: an appreciation of the play included in the issue: The Strangers, by christopher …
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