Tierney Oberhammer On Two Images that Inspired “Sunshine Skyway”
Tierney Oberhammer reflects on two images that inspired the story “Sunshine Skyway,” published in issue 20.2.
Features
Special Feature: “Weight of Words” by Hussain Shah Rezaie
I couldn’t even utter the soothing sentence: It’s going to be fine…
Highlighting Cincinnati Streetvibes
This week we want to redirect your attention to the work of an important Cincinnati newspaper, Streetvibes, published by the Greater Cincinnati Homeless Coalition.
Acre Books at Books by the Banks!
Join us for the launch of Acre Books—UC’s new small literary press—at the annual Books by the Banks festival, which takes place at Duke Energy Convention Center this Saturday. Doors open at 10 a.m., and panels and other book-tastic events run until 4 p.m. Our 45-minute program begins at 2:30 in room 209. Nicola Mason, …
Hink Pink Answers
Michael Griffith: Congratulations to our puzzle contest winners, Stephanie La Francofille (with help from C.) and Vivian D., both of whom have earned either a year’s subscription to CR or a year’s extension. And thanks to all of you who tackled these tricky puzzles (and, again, to Dylan Hicks and Paris Review for their trailblazing …
Art Song Video Premiere!
Don Bogen: With its score for alto flute, bass clarinet, viola, cello, piano, percussion, and soprano, David Clay Mettens’s setting of Mary Kaiser’s “He Dreams a Mother” in our Summer 2016 issue (just released) is one of the most intricate and haunting pieces in our series of art songs. It’s also the first for which …
Art Song Live Performance!
Our art song feature for the spring issue is an extended score of Mary Kaiser’s poem “He Dreams a Mother” by composer David Clay Mettens. We will, of course, post a recording of the score when our spring issue comes out in May—but we’re excited to offer locals the opportunity for a live listening experience. …
Frameable Art for AWP!
We’ve been working on something special for this year’s AWP conference and book fair in LA. At our request, printmaker and author of the award-winning The Clown Genocide: A Novel in Woodcuts Billy Simms has created a set of woodblock relief prints to offer new subscribers during the book fair. Modeled after pages in a child’s primer, each …
Art Song Recording: “The body remembers . . .”
Composer and poet Kevin Simmonds has provided us with a recording of his setting of C. Dylan Bassett’s poem “The body remembers . . .”. The score is featured in our current issue. As poetry editor Don Bogen writes in his introduction to the piece: “Music, like poetry, doesn’t belong to just the eyes. Both …
CR Sampler
Hey, everybody. The term starts next week, the winter issue is with the typesetter, and we’re already back to considering and reading submissions for our upcoming spring 2016 number. Actually we never stopped. It has taken us all summer to . . . almost . . . catch up. (Only thirty more to go from …