excerpt from “Sunshine Skyway” by Tierney Oberhammer
“The peephole is installed backward,” my one-night stand said as I sat up in bed. We were in his...
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Category: Samples
Stories Worth Telling by Natalie Villacorta
Natalie Villacorta talks about how working with children at WordPlay Cincy and Oyler High School helped her see her own writing practices.
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Writing Therapy: Spoken Word in the Corporate World by MoPoetry Phillips
MoPoetry Phillips discusses the power of writing therapy for those who have experienced trauma as well as for those in the corporate world.
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Kenneth Koch, Cincinnatian, Poet of Confetti, by L. S. Klatt
L. S. Klatt on poet Kenneth Koch’s relationship to the city where he grew up.
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Arrested Cross-Fertilization by Tyrone Williams
Tyrone Williams on failed attempts to integrate Cincinnati’s literary scene
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Full feature on where writing lives in Cincinnati
In Issue 20.2, one of our twentieth-anniversary issues, we present a special feature on where...
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WELCOME TO THE READING: A Five-Decade Tour of Cincinnati’s Aural/Oral Poetry Scene by Jim Palmarini
Jim Palmarini gives a lyrical tour through fifty years of the poetry scene in the Cincinnati region.
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The Neighborhoods of Literary Cincinnati: A Personal History, by Pauletta Hansel
Pauletta Hansel details her experiences with the literary community in Cincinnati.
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Two poems by Allan Peterson
Sanctuary Sound effects are a parallel life made of common materials wood blocks for hooves et...
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“Overtakelessness” by Daniel Moysaenko
I Watching Black Sea sand draw away from your feet the lateness of faith—that teetering while...
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Three poems from After by Norman Finkelstein
Norman Finkelstein pays homage to poets who’ve gone before.
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“How to Swallow the Moon” by Hailey Leithauser
In this poem from issue 20.2, Haley Leithauser offers some ideas for how to eat the moon.
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