The Fourth C of Good Copyediting
Nicola Mason continues her YouTube series on the Five Cs of Good Copyediting. This week: Conciseness.
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Statement in Support of the NEA
Given President Trump’s proposed budget and its implications for (or, rather, complete slashing of) the National Endowment for the Arts, we here at The Cincinnati Review are joining others in the writing community to state officially that we stand in solidarity with the NEA. We would also like to acknowledge our own ventures made possible by …
What’s Poetry Got to Do With It?: Introversion/Extraversion
musings by José Angel Araguz Episode 7: Introversion/Extraversion In this episode I explore ways that the terms introversion and extraversion can be used as a lens with which to read poems. The Introvert/Extravert Lens The terms introversion and extraversion were first significantly put into use by Carl Jung and later popularized by personality tests such …
A Video Poem: Kathy Fagan’s “In California”
One of our more ambitious projects these days is making use of the wonderful Elliston archives. For decades, readings in the storied Elliston Room have been recorded, and many of these readers are contributors to CR. Our goal is not just to present the distinctive voices of these poets reading their own works but to …
Best New Poets nominations!
Continuing in the spirit of sending good vibes to our contributors, we are happy to announce our nominees for the Best New Poets anthology: Paige Lewis’s “Jayne” and Jen Schalliol’s “The Open Mouth” (both in issue 13.1). Best New Poets is an annual anthology of fifty poems from emerging writers who haven’t yet published a full-length book. …
Submission Period Closing Soon!!! Special Call for Nonfiction
Just a quick reminder that our Submission Period will close on March 15th (at 11:59pm, EST – to be technical). Due to trends discussed recently by our esteemed Senior Associate Editor Matt O’Keefe, we especially welcome literary nonfiction submissions. So if you’ve got a lyric essay, travel narrative about your last trip to Mongolia, flash-style memoir, personal essay told …
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