For this special audio blog, we’re excited to present contributor Vincent Hiscock (issue 14.2) as he reads not only his own poem from our pages but also the work of Gary Snyder (“Piute Creek”), William Wordsworth (“The World Is Too Much with Us”), and Denise Levertov (“O Taste and See”). He sees a tether between …
It is with complicated emotions that we announce that Don Bogen will be stepping down as poetry editor of the magazine. Don has served The Cincinnati Review for just over thirteen years. During that time, he has worked with grace, intelligence, and precise vision in choosing and shaping the poetry in our magazine’s pages, poems …
Editorial Assistant Emily Rose Cole: There is little said in Mary Ruefle’s Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures (Wave Books, 2012) that I don’t wholeheartedly agree with. In fact, Ruefle’s meditations on craft put into words many truths I have always believed about poetry but could never fully articulate. In the essay “On Secrets,” for …
In our Issue 14.2, we feature a stunning story by Yxta Maya Murray, “YouTube Comment 2 to Video of I Like America and America Likes Me by Joseph Beuys.” When we read and copyedited the story (read an excerpt here), we experienced it almost as a hybrid piece, with such developed descriptions of performance art …
Editorial Assistant Austin Allen: Inger Christensen’s Alphabet (New Directions, 2001) is a book that made me hesitate at first, then won me over. Its inventive structure, based on the Fibonacci sequence (the number of lines in each section follow the pattern 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, etc.), impressed me as both clever and challenging, …
In our current issue, we feature a story by Siân Griffiths, “Wooden Spoons,” which describes a man watching his estranged daughter on a cooking competition. Today, to accompany the story, we offer you Griffiths’s “Scones: A Recipe,” just in time for baking for Saint Lucia’s Day or your next holiday party. Enjoy! …
Editorial Assistant Alex Evans: The realities of being a graduate student in creative writing are such that I have very little time to read outside of my coursework. However, for the past few months, I’ve been using whatever spare moments I can find to revisit some of my favorite novels and collections of the past few …
It’s that time of year again, when across North America leaves fall from deciduous trees, people gather together indoors to eat more food than they should, and literary journals compile nominations for the Pushcart Press and other important anthologies. We find this to be a tough season: less light, expanding waistlines, and having to …
(Editors’ note: Every year, the Mercantile Library, a local membership library, sponsors the Niehoff Lecture, a black-tie fundraiser that brings a literary star to Cincinnati for a dinner and lecture. For this year’s event, novelist Zadie Smith was interviewed by Jim Schiff, a professor of English at the University of Cincinnati and a great friend …
Editorial Assistant Sakinah Hofler: When I first saw my reading list for my Forms class, I noted the usual suspects—Woolf, Austen, Elliot, Zadie Smith—then I paused at one title, The Salt Line by Holly Goddard Jones. Knowing Jones from her collection of realistic stories (Girl Trouble), I was surprised by the first line of description …
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