Brian Trapp: It’s often said that fiction make us feel less lonely. However, growing up with a disabled twin brother, I often found novels to be a lonely place. Where were the stories about brothers like mine? Families like mine? Stories that depicted the severely disabled as more than objects of pity? This year, I …
Nicola Mason: As they say in the auction world when something is about to go, Fair warning! In this case, our Submission Manger is about to go offline for the usual issue-filling bits of poetry and prose. If you want to shoot us something for consideration, do it this weekend. The hammer falls on April …
The lineup for Word Without End is set. In addition to the fab folks Don Peteroy lauds below, we’ve nabbed Sheri Allen, Brian Brodeur, Kiley Cogis Brodeur, Les Kay, Michael Peterson, Sarah Strickley, Sara Watson, Dietrick Vanderhill, and Kathy Zlabek. How fun is this going to be? Um, very. Don Peteroy (from his Facebook status …
Lisa Ampleman: I’ve been savoring Mary Szybist’s second book of poems, Incarnadine (Graywolf, 2013), released recently. Nearly eight years ago in St. Louis, I heard Szybist read from her first book, Granted, and I bought it immediately. In fact, I asked her where I could find a copy of one of the newer poems she’d …
Oh yes, it’s that time again. April brings, not just tulips, but CR’s annual inflorescence—the reading/performance extravaganza, Word Without End. This year we’ll be storming the capacious space above York Street Cafe. The date: Friday, April 12. The time: 7 till 10 p.m. The theme: Friendings. This year’s featured contributor is Cincinnati’s own Matt Hart, …
We’d like to give a shout out to Cincinnati Review contributor Karina Borowicz. Her new collection, The Bees Are Waiting, was selected by Franz Wright for the Marick Press Poetry Prize and has just been named a Must-Read Book of 2013 by the Massachusetts Center for the Book. The collection contains her poem “The Globe,” which was …
Nicola Mason: We here at UC are enjoying an extended visit with Claudia Emerson, winner of the 2006 Pulitzer for her third collection, Late Wife. As our 2013 Elliston Poet-in-Residence, Claudia is teaching and holding conferences with grad students, giving readings and lectures to the literary community, and generally lavishing her delightful company on everyone …
Spring Break is at an end, and it’s great to be back in the office. The staff at CR is so devoted, so focused, so . . . fused to the rewarding work of bringing you lit that buzzes your bulbs, we tend to feel a bit lost when we don’t have submissions to read, …
We’re spending most of the day with Issue 10.1, as we review our exhaustive proofreading process and produce one master proofread copy that we can send to our typesetter for changes. Before we let it go, though, we’d like to give you a taste of Issue 9.2— in particular, a number of poems that are …
As you will discover in her appreciation below, editorial assistant Jessica Brown is an intrepid and fearless traveler. She name-drops countries like rappers mention name brands. Argentina? Boom. J. Brown has been there. You want to know about Ghana? Hold those horses. J. Brown can tell you all about it. Based on our extensive Facebook-stalking …
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