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Contributor News: Wayne Miller
Here at the Cincinnati Review we’re always rooting for our talented contributors, so we’re especially happy today because of some good news from Poetry Editor Don Bogen: Don Bogen: Congratulations are in order for poet, translator, editor, and CR contributor Wayne Miller, whose most recent book Post- (Milkweed Editions, 2016) was just awarded the Rainer Maria …
microreview & interview: Rochelle Hurt’s In Which I Play the Runaway
In “The Miami River Floods,” from Rochelle Hurt’s collection In Which I Play the Runaway (Barrow Street Press), the speaker addresses her father while watching footage of the Miami River flooding and speculates on the following: how many babies will be born tonight in heroic backseatdeliveries as cars float down the freeway? They will …
The Third C of Good Copyediting: Clarity
Acre Editor Nicola Mason continues her YouTube series on the Five Cs of Good Copyediting. This week: CLARITY
A Sabermetric Note from Your Submission Manager Manager
As we ease into March (and Spring Training), we find ourselves in the final stretch of our reading period, which ends March 15th. Here’s Senior Associate Editor Matt O’Keefe offering up some play-by-play on submissions patterns he’s noticed over the years. Matt O’Keefe: Six to three to one. What is that? A somewhat decisive community council vote? One of your rarer …
More Pushcart Nominations!!!
We both love and hate nominating pieces for the Pushcart Prize. With our allotment of a mere six selections, there are so many excellent stories and poems that we must leave unheralded. That’s why we’re thrilled to announce more Pushcart Prize nominations, this time stemming from the Pushcart contributing editors’ choices. They’ve nominated six more …
Gwen E. Kirby Reads “A Good-Looking Couple” by Etgar Keret
Ever wonder what our staff reads when they’re not reading your submissions or reading for exams or reading for academic papers they’re writing? Assistant Editor Gwen Kirby gives voice to one of her favorite pieces of flash fiction in this episode of Staff Picks.
Good News for Some Former CR Staff
As we work here at CR to scrub, tighten, and clean our accepted submissions into another carefully copy edited issue ready to send to the typesetter, it’s always nice to hear good news about the accomplishments of those who have served us as editors and readers in the past. Matt McBride, an associate editor from …
A Peek at Acre’s Premiere Publication
At Acre Books, we’re working through the proofs of our first publication, A Very Angry Baby: The Anthology. Here’s a peek at some of the wailing within its pages.
Interviews: Poets of Instagram part 1
by José Angel Araguz Over the next few weeks, I plan to share interviews with #poetsofinstagram, that is, poets who have chosen the social media site Instagram as the forum to share their work. Interviews range from poets who work with erasure/blackout poetry and found poems, to poets who combine their own artwork with their …