Category: From our Contributors

From Our Contributors: Erika Gallion Velasquez Shares a Playlist to Accompany “Paradise is Ours”

by Bess Winter | May 23, 2025 | From our Contributors | 0

Robert and Adele Schiff Award winner Erika Gallion Velasquez shares a playlist to accompany her prize-winning essay.

Video: “Your Inbox Is Too Much With Us—a correspondence,” by Jaye Kranz

by Bess Winter | May 9, 2025 | From our Contributors | 0

Jaye Kranz shares this haunting excerpt of her poem, that takes us on journeys through email exchanges and ASCII landscapes that feel both déjà vu-like and oddly tranquil.

From Our Contributors: The Button Box

by Lisa Ampleman | Mar 14, 2025 | From our Contributors, On Craft | 0

Contributor Cristi Donoso on encouraging her son’s creativity through an art cart and button box.

On Craft: Rebecca Bernard on Plotting Character

by Cincinnati Review | Dec 20, 2024 | From our Contributors, On Craft | 0

A craft exercise about how to understand character through plot and vice versa

Robert Thomas reads from “Sonnets with Riff and Hook”

by Cincinnati Review | Dec 6, 2024 | From our Contributors | 0

Poet Robert Thomas reads two sections of his sonnet crown published in Issue 21.2.

From Our Contributors: A Tour of Crimea with Yekaterina Droog

by Cincinnati Review | Aug 16, 2024 | From our Contributors | 0

3 minutes reading time Photo by Artem Bryzgalov on Unsplash Assistant Managing Editor Bess Winter:...

From Our Contributors: Hadley Moore On Iconic Images of Our Assassinated Political Heroes

by Cincinnati Review | Aug 2, 2024 | From our Contributors | 0

Hadley Moore explores what we can learn from photos of our fallen heroes.

From Our Contributors: Down the Rabbit Hole—Strange Rabbits in Art, by Nikki Barnhart

by Cincinnati Review | Jul 26, 2024 | From our Contributors | 0

Nikki Barnhart shares the artworks that inspired her story in issue 21.1, “Rabbit, Rabbit.”

From Our Contributors: Rethinking The Urban Pastoral, by Malik Thompson

by Cincinnati Review | Jul 19, 2024 | From our Contributors | 0

“Encountering Shepherd’s essay as a younger poet, I recall being eager to wrestle with the unspoken challenge asserted by this sharp, studied elder. How do I write the city?”