We expect Issue 15.1 to ship from the printer any day now! Local folks, we’d love to see you at the launch party on Friday, June 1, at Caza Sikes Gallery in Oakley; the event doubles as the gallery opening for an exhibit of new work by Dewey Blocksma, the featured artist in the …
We’ve heard a lot of good news lately, including that a poem from our miCRo series, “Iraq Good” by Hugh Martin, was chosen as a Pushcart Prize winner and will appear in The Pushcart Prize XLIII: Best of the Small Presses, 2019 edition! Assistant Editor Caitlin Doyle said in her introduction of “Iraq Good” that …
Editorial Assistant Ankit Basnet: Over the years, I have grown fond of reading book-length poems. And the projects that always draw me in are, unsurprisingly, sonnet sequences, often favored by contemporary American poets experimenting with poetic forms. The sonnet never goes out of vogue because it stands the test of time. Its shape is so …
Whew—we did it: We converted the entire print run of The Cincinnati Review, including out-of-print classics like Issue 2.2 and Issue 13.2, to digital versions—both epub and PDF . Now that each issue of the CR exists as 1s and 0s, you can add them to your e-reading queue. In celebration, all 28 issues are …
Editorial Assistant Madeleine Wattenberg: I fell asleep halfway through reading Kim Kyung Ju’s I Am a Season That Does Not Exist in the World (Black Ocean, 2016) and dreamed that a neon pink cobra hid in my shoe and bit my big toe. I mention this both because it is not unlike what it feels like …
We’re jumping for joy at recent recognitions of work from our pages! One piece will appear in an anthology, another was a finalist, and still others were nominated for consideration: Sonja Livingston’s marvelous essay from issue 14.2, “Miracle of the Eyes,” about mysterious happenings with statues of Mary in Ireland in 1985, was selected for …
The time has come when word-lovers of all varieties flock to the annual Association of Writers & Writing Program Conference. We relish meeting our readers, contributors, submitters, and subscribers at AWP each year, and we’re as galvanized as ever to make our way to Tampa in just a few days. Here’s what we’ll be up …
Here at The Cincinnati Review, we’re approaching the end of our submission period, so we’re eager to share a final reminder with you. The deadline by which you can submit work for the journal is today: Thursday, March 1 (by 11:59 Eastern time). Time is running out, and we’re itching to get our hands on …
We’re looking forward to this event on Thursday at 7:30! CR contributor Marcus Wicker will be reading poems and giving a lecture about “Poetry as Protest and Social Activism.” Join us at the Mercantile Library, a beautiful library on the 11th floor of 414 Walnut in downtown Cincinnati. Two poems of Wicker’s, “Tiki Torch Cookout …
Assistant Editor Molly Reid: As a lover of flash fiction, I was elated to start my first year with the Cincinnati Review just as it was rolling out miCRo, the magazine’s online short-form feature. In six months, we’ve published 18 stellar pieces of fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and hybrid work. Our guidelines are fairly open: “For …
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