Category: On Craft
Hawks and Walkaways: How Nature Can Aid Revision
Posted by Cincinnati Review | Apr 5, 2024 | From our Contributors, On Craft | 0
Getting Away with It: Epistolary Fiction
Posted by Lily Davenport | Sep 22, 2023 | On Craft | 0
Poetry in Fiction Workshop: Everything Is the Same...
Posted by Cincinnati Review | Aug 10, 2023 | On Craft | 0
Are You Gonna Go My Way? The Inclusiveness of Seco...
Posted by Cincinnati Review | Feb 16, 2023 | From our Contributors, On Craft | 0
Elliston Poet-in-Residence Spotlight: Brian Teare
Posted by Cincinnati Review | Feb 9, 2023 | On Craft | 0
Craft Musings on Beginnings and More, from Our Editors
by Cincinnati Review | Sep 6, 2024 | Editors' Dispatches, On Craft | 0
Three of our editors on the craft of beginnings and more
Read MoreHawks and Walkaways: How Nature Can Aid Revision
by Cincinnati Review | Apr 5, 2024 | From our Contributors, On Craft | 0
“Not everyone will walk away from a computer into the vast outdoors and find help from a hawk. But over time, these ‘focused walkaways,’ which were first unexpected distractions, have become a scheduled part of my practice, my discipline.”
Read MoreGetting Away with It: Epistolary Fiction
by Lily Davenport | Sep 22, 2023 | On Craft | 0
The epistolary toolkit is a rich and varied one—it insists on the reader’s interpretive participation, and offers powerful methods for developing character and setting and for playing with the progression of time. So: what, supposedly, is wrong with it?
Read MorePoetry in Fiction Workshop: Everything Is the Same, Everything Is Not the Same
by Cincinnati Review | Aug 10, 2023 | On Craft | 0
Summer Assistant Editor Rome Hernández Morgan explores the ways poets can learn from the craft of fiction.
Read MoreAre You Gonna Go My Way? The Inclusiveness of Second Person
by Cincinnati Review | Feb 16, 2023 | From our Contributors, On Craft | 0
What makes second-person narration so compelling? What makes it so polarizing? In this essay, Jen Michalski reflects on the magnetic pull of “you.”
Read MoreElliston Poet-in-Residence Spotlight: Brian Teare
by Cincinnati Review | Feb 9, 2023 | On Craft | 0
We reflect on Elliston Poet-in-Residence Brian Teare’s vivid call for “poetry as fieldwork.”
Read MoreIn Defense of Wish Fulfillment & Romantic Fantasy
by Cincinnati Review | Nov 15, 2022 | On Craft | 1
What can romance teach us about the space between “improbable” and “impossible”?
Read MoreTrapdoors & Lit Fuses: How We End Our Poems
by Cincinnati Review | Oct 27, 2022 | On Craft | 0
How do we choose a poem’s final, resounding lines?
Read MoreOn Writing in a Secondary Genre
by Cincinnati Review | Nov 4, 2021 | On Craft | 0
Working across genres can be intimidating for those who write and publish in mostly one genre. Cindy Juyoung Ok, SJ Sindu, Philip Metres, and Kathryn Nuernberger share insights.
Read MorePoetry at the Museum
by Cincinnati Review | Sep 9, 2021 | On Craft | 0
What draws us, as writers, to museums, exhibits, and galleries? What is it about these spaces—real or imagined—that makes us curators in our own work?
Read MoreOn Titling Poems
by Cincinnati Review | Feb 4, 2021 | On Craft | 1
Titling is sometimes the easiest, sometimes the hardest part of crafting a poem—a process that seems shrouded in both mystery and luck. Five poets share their perspectives.
Read MoreOn Craft: Notes on a Failure Poetics
by Cincinnati Review | Sep 10, 2020 | On Craft | 0
“I’m not going to talk about ways to succeed in poetry—not how to craft a perfect line or please your reader or even excite the staff at a literary journal. Instead, I’m going to briefly talk about a poetics of failure.”
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