Managing Editor Lisa Ampleman: The prose poem was born in rebellion, from surrealistic parents. It grew up nourished by juxtapositions, associative movement, a direct statement followed by a non sequitur. It studied intermediate lyrical techniques and the controversy between ragged-right or force-justified text in graduate school. And here, in Maureen Seaton’s hands, it takes …
Managing Editor Lisa Ampleman: We’re big fans of ghost stories here at The Cincinnati Review; Assistant Editor Molly Reid explained that well in a blog post last fall, highlighting stories from issue 14.2 that fell into that category. Since then, we’ve also featured another sort of ghost story on miCRo, Katie Cortese’s “Neat Freak,” …
Managing Editor Lisa Ampleman: As I prepared this post for publication a few weeks ago, I wondered if this poem would seem too timely on its publication date. Kelle Groom’s “River of Grass” includes specific details that remind us of the tragedy at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, but—of course—in the …
Managing Editor Lisa Ampleman: Becky Hagenston’s “Star Girl” feels like a cousin to another piece in our miCRo series, Doris Cheng’s “Earthling,” a story that features a teenager who thinks she might be an extraterrestrial. In Becky Hagenston’s hands, the concern with aliens takes a different turn: The “Star Girl” of the title was …
Managing Editor Lisa Ampleman: What does a English Renaissance–era writer have to do with contemporary race relations? In this poem, Joshua Kryah brings together a reconsideration of the playwright and poet Ben Jonson, who once killed a man in a duel, and a contemporary scene in which a neighbor with ready racist comments also …
Managing Editor Lisa Ampleman: Today’s miCRo is a lively poem with surprising turns of diction and syntax, as nouns mutate into verbs and adjectives. As the title indicates, the poem is aware of itself as poem but isn’t limited by that conceit; it’s not a proverbial noisy gong but an energetic dance. Holy mackerel, …
Managing Editor Lisa Ampleman: In Katie Cortese’s deft hands, this story juxtaposes the greatest kinds of loss with the mundane details of a life lived in the aftermath. Medieval torture shares a paragraph with the limitations of automatic doors at a gym, and “Windex and elbow-length rubber gloves” show up near the memory of a funeral. …
Today is a big day at The Cincinnati Review! We are blowing our bugles, banging our drums, and summoning our in-house bards to spread the news: Our new Poetry Editor Rebecca Lindenberg has started her tenure at the journal, and we couldn’t be more jubilant to introduce her to our readers. Managing Editor Lisa Ampleman …
[Editors’ note: The miCRo feature will take a month-long hiatus, with the exception of a special New Year’s Day poem. Thank you for your support in 2017; see you in 2018!] Managing Editor Lisa Ampleman: As we told her when we accepted “Earthling,” Doris Cheng clearly trusts her readers as she weaves her flash …
Nicola Mason: An announcement on the heels of a week of change (on the heels of a week of change, on the heels of a week of change). After time in the trenches and a great deal of self-searching, Becky Adnot-Haynes has decided to step down as managing editor. She loved many things about the …
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