Great news: Contributor Chase Twichell, whose poem “Raw Umber” appears in issue 6.2, has won the 2011 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. This prestigious accolade, which comes with a $100,000 purse, is awarded each year to an outstanding mid-career poet. Congratulations, Chase! To read “Raw Umber,” check out Dave Nielsen’s “Why We Like It” blog post …
When not in the office, Assistant Editor Matt McBride retreats to the caves of nearby Kentucky, where he renounces the material world and lives on a strict diet of hickory nuts and wild honey. We don’t talk about it much, except to point out when he’s meditating aloud or has twigs stuck in his hair. …
REJECT REJECTION! Attribute it to post-AWP punchiness, but for this month’s contest, we’re going to try something a little risky. At the mag, we’re all writers too, which is to say we’ve all been rejected, numerous times, which is to say we know well the lowering moment of finding a form response in the mailbox’s …
Dear blog readers, Though one member of our ragtag staff is still stranded in Atlanta, the rest of us made it back from AWP bleary-eyed but buoyant. We were contemplating a blog post that would convey our pell-mell, nerve-endings-afire conference experience when we happened upon volunteer staffer Don Peteroy’s Facebook account of our offsite reading …
As many of you know, poetry editor Don Bogen won the Fulbright-Queen’s University Belfast Creative Writing Scholar Award (the only Fulbright Award in creative writing). In mid-January he hopped the pond and is now settling into his temporary digs. We look forward to Don’s updates on his adventures in Northern Ireland (last week, he bought …
We got the call yesterday. Christopher Merkner’s “Last Cottage” (vol. 7, no. 1) has been selected to appear in the upcoming Best American Mystery Stories anthology. Yay! For some insight into the story’s utter awesomeness, see Suzanne Warren’s January 12th Why We Like It post.
This year, at the Associated Writing Programs conference in Washington, D.C., Cincinnati Review, Mid-American Review, and Ninth Letter will be offering a combined subscription to all three journals for only $33. That’s right, at AWP and only at AWP you can get your mitts on the Midwest’s most precious resource (not counting soybeans and corn) …
If you’ll be at AWP in DC, or even if you don’t know what that is but you’re within a two-week headlong sprint of Dupont Circle, then you should join the Monster Mags of the Midwest—Ninth Letter, Mid-American Review, and Cincinnati Review—for a fearsome night of reading, Heartland-style, with plenty of poetry, fiction, and beer …
We’re obviously big fans of Edith Pearlman—her story “Life Lessons” is coming out in our fall/winter issue (8.2), and you can read her stories in several CR back issues too. So we’re happy to see that her new collection, Binocular Vision, has garnered Sunday book reviews from both the NY Times and the LA Times. Check …
Blogophiles (whom we dub, during the time you’re reading our blog, as CRogophiles): get ready for installment seven of “Why We Like It,” weekly (sort of) segments that expose the pulsating hearts of poetry and prose in our pages like coronary bypass surgery—only what we do is less gross and sounds more mellifluous. This week …
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