Why Should This Be Beautiful
In Issue 16.1, our literary nonfiction offerings include Emily Block’s essay “Fog Studies,” which meditatively explores many different aspects and meanings of “fog.”
From our Contributors
Bonus Track: Unpack Your Adjectives
In her review of Elizabeth McCracken’s Thunderstruck & Other Stories (Dial, 2014) in issue 16.1, Sherrie Flick introduces us to “Unpack Your Adjectives” by Schoolhouse Rock! Here, as accompaniment to the review, is said adjective-loving song: And for those not already familiar with it, here’s its well-known colleague, “Conjunction Junction,” which Flick also mentions: While …
Sophie Klahr on How a Series Gets Started
When we mail out each issue to contributors, we encourage them to let us know if they’d like to expand the context for their work in our pages, via our blog. For Issue 15.2, we’ve heard from several writers; the latest is Sophie Klahr, who’s interested in explaining the impetus behind her two poems in …
A Broadside of Rose McLarney’s “Old Road
After each issue lands in readers’ hands, we encourage our contributors to say a little bit on our blog about their work. For issue 15.2, our first such post comes from poet Rose McLarney, who worked with artist Gary Hawkins on a broadside of her poem “Old Road” from our pages, as described below: Rose …
Continuing the Conversation
In every issue of The Cincinnati Review, we include a fiction review feature, most often with three takes on the same novel. In issue 15.1, out this past May, Ally Glass-Katz, Drew Johnson, and Margaret Luongo wrote about Alissa Nutting’s Made for Love (Ecco, 2017). Late this summer, after they had a chance to read …
In Celebration of National Dance Day, July 28
A few weeks ago on the blog, we featured an appreciation of Marie Kare’s short-shorts, a series called How to Celebrate National Days. As additional bonus content, in honor of National Dance Day (the final Saturday in July), here’s one more installment of the series: National Dance Day July 28, 2018 (Last Saturday in …
A Brief Reading with Vincent Hiscock
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 …
Women Are Poor, People Are Bad, and We’re All Going to Die: Loving Performance Art
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 …
“Scones: A Recipe,” from Siân Griffiths
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! …
Multimedia Experience of “Albuquerque”
In Issue 14.1, we featured a stunning poem by Jessica Ankeny, “Albuquerque.” To accompany the text of the poem, we’re pleased to present this multimedia experience, with Ankeny reading the poem and some photos of images from it. Cotton seeds: A New Mexico sunset: The “old volcanoes”: