Tag: Why We Like It
A Year in Blogs
What’s fascinated CR blog-writers these past few months?
Read MoreWhy We Like It: “Hotshot” by Jaclyn Dwyer
“Hotshot” closes with the realization that sometimes a fire gets too hot and high for anything else to stop it. These final lines can also serve as a metaphor for addiction—sometimes the fire of it can only be put out with more fire…
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Why We Like It: “The Crow in Effigy: A Flip-Book” by Sarah Minor, and Other Nontraditional Essays
But why choose a flip-book and not, say, the traditional page breaks of a lyric essay?
Read MoreWhy We Like It: “And We’ll See You Tomorrow Night”
Julialicia Case: I’m not much of a baseball person, or even a sports person, so when I came across Dave Mondy’s essay “And We’ll See You Tomorrow Night,” I did not expect to be swept away. After all, the piece focuses on the...
Read MoreWhy We Like It: Joshua Coben’s “Antechamber”
Antechamber – Joshua Coben* The father is a dark door the son may lean against to listen for the locked room of himself, his next life. Later he will listen there for the echo of his own death. Meanwhile he becomes a dark door...
Read MoreWhy We Like It: “Stolen from the Cries of Ravens and the Red Smell of the Wind” by Jay Leeming
Anonymous crawled down a muddy slot in the earth to put red handprints on the cave wall, Anonymous who painted the Crab Nebula onto a rock ledge and translated the winter wind into black ink on vellum, Anonymous the unknown...
Read MoreWhy We Like It: “Vogelsong” by Leslie Parry
A self-proclaimed tech-geek and amateur dog-trainer, new volunteer and first-year PhD student in fiction Brenda Peynado has a talent for incorporating her disparate interests into conversations at the CR office. A discussion...
Read MoreWhy We Like It: “Here I Am”
Cincinnati is in the midst of its sixteenth coldest stretch on record. Each day is somehow icier than the last, each parking space a bigger snow mountain, each small dog more reluctant to go outside, no matter how plaintively...
Read MoreWhy We Like It: “Listeners”
Recent volunteer and PhD-poet extraordinaire Julia Koets joins us by way of San Francisco and Summerville, South Carolina. When asked about how the Midwest stacks up against northern California and the Deep South, Julia...
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Why We Like It: “The People Who Ignore You Are the People Who Live Here”
Last week, when volunteer Suzanne Wendell strolled into our offices, we complimented her new...
Read More“Conviction (Warden’s Greeting)”: Why We Like It
Here at the CR office we come across a lot of different kinds of volunteers. There was one volunteer who earned a perfect score on his copy-editing test but who came in dead last in our goetta-eating competition (we like to...
Read More“Reciprocity”: Why We Like It
It’s not unusual for poet Ruth Williams to disappear on occasion. These absences are often preceded by some sort cryptic comment from Ruth, like “I have, each year, lived past the day I will die.” Then, a week or so later,...
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