A few months ago, CR staff member Don Peteroy announced he was going to conduct an interviewing experiment. His idea was to contact writers he admires (he is an intrepid, yea tireless, journal reader) and ask them each an absurd (yea, downright ridiculous) question—a question designed to throw said writer off balance and elicit an …
In their waxing and waning, seasons are like radio signals, and as we climbed toward our McMicken Hall office this morning, the forty-nine-degree air was a cold static on our naked forearms, calves, and flip-floppeted feet. People smug in their jeans and windbreakers were giving us impertinent looks. Once inside, we ransacked the CR’s desk …
Get ready, ’cause we’re gearing up for a second installment of Monster Mags of the Midwest at this year’s AWP conference in Chicago. That’s right. Cincinnati Review, Mid-American Review, and Ninth Letter are once again teaming up to deliver what will be, in all likelihood, the most awesomely monstrous reading ever. Because if there’s one …
Poetry editor Don Bogen, who has been off fellowshipping at the Heaney Centre in Belfast for what seems (to our lonesome staff) a great age, is soon to fly back to us. Appropriate, then, that his last across-the-pond post takes, as its topic, birds. Don Bogen: A word about birds. They seem especially noticeable here, …
Kudos to the amazing profs and students who make our grad program in writing excelente. Poets & Writers magazine has ranked UC’s PhD in creative writing #8 in the country!
CR staff member Dietrik Vanderhill is Dutch. Like, wore-wooden-shoes-to-hometown-parades-in-Iowa Dutch. Like, grew-up-in-a-house-his-father-built-himself Dutch. Like, every-angle-on-his-body-is-precisely-90-degrees Dutch. You could set your watch on the man’s chin were in not covered by a large, bushy beard the color of fall leaves. Last Monday, Dietrik came into our office in a state of severe agitation. He was struggling …
CR volunteer Brian Trapp is haunted. If you see him from a distance, you might think the noxious-looking cloud wafting behind him is indicative of a Pigpen-like stench, but really Brian smells okay (a bit like cashews, actually). The emanations trailing him like a comet’s gaseous tail are, in fact, [booming voice here] HIS DEMONS. …
WVXU generously interviewed our managing editor, Nicola Mason, for a segment that aired yesterday on Cincinnati Edition. For those of you who weren’t fully caffeinated and eagerly listening to public radio at 7 a.m. on a Sunday, here’s the link to WVXU’s mp3. Just scroll down to August 7 and click on The Cincinnati Review …
Check out this great article on Cincinnati’s literary landscape. Thank you, Soapbox!
More from our contributors on their work in our current issue—volume 8, number 1. We’re struck by how these three poets approach dailiness. Through lavish contemplation of common objects, events, or experiences, they enliven and enrich what often falls under our radar. Chad Sweeney: I’ve written a series of poems with place names for titles …
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