Frequent CR contributor Julianna Baggott has constructed a dark and all-too-believable morality tale about gun violence in schools. The light tone of the young narrator belies the eerie circumstances the schoolchildren experience in the name of safety.
This poem meditates on—and elevates—the word No in ways I haven’t seen before. I think, of course, of the issue of consent in intimate relationships, and the power that No needs to have in that context
Jacques J. Rancourt’s fabulous poem “A Detail from the Bayeux Tapestry, 11th c.” moves beyond simple description, employing the tools of the best ekphrastic work…
Something monumental has shifted in the speaker by the poem’s end, but the images and meaning remain ephemeral: “the cloth will make/for good nesting material.”
As the school year winds down and we get ready to welcome our summer assistant editors, we also say goodbye to Caitlin Doyle and Molly Reid, who have been CR editors for two years now.
Associate Editor Molly Reid: It’s proofreading time here at The Cincinnati Review, which means we have our colored pencils out and our screens open to The Chicago Manual of Style. It also means we have a chance to do a deep read of the entire 16.1 issue. In addition to the joy of finding errors …
In every issue of The Cincinnati Review, we include a fiction review feature, most often with three takes on the same novel. In issue 15.1, out this past May, Ally Glass-Katz, Drew Johnson, and Margaret Luongo wrote about Alissa Nutting’s Made for Love (Ecco, 2017). Late this summer, after they had a chance to read …
Managing Editor Lisa Ampleman: With a miCRo this diminutive, we’d like to keep our own words about it to a minimum. Suffice it to say that the Latinate title and austere form belie the depth of the message behind the poem, which is a reflection of this Anthropocene era and all that is rapidly …
Managing Editor Lisa Ampleman: This story opens with teen girls being teen girls together. The added twist? The mother of one girl is a real-life witch, with tarot cards and all. Mead-Brewer has crafted well-wrought scenes in which the teens try to scare each other, but there’s a turn late in the piece to …
Managing Editor Lisa Ampleman: The opening of this prose poem dazzles with description of scene, a super Mercado on Saturday night; I think of Allen Ginsberg’s “A Supermarket in California”: “Wives in the avocados, babies in the tomatoes!” Kathy Z. Price’s poem moves with the same energy, thought after cascading thought separated only by …
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