miCRo: “Homesick Sonnet” by Steven Espada Dawson
Steven Espada Dawson’s sonnet about the Los Angeles area creates a compelling scene about the complexity of the lost Eden.
Read MorePosted by Cincinnati Review | Jun 22, 2022 | miCRo
Steven Espada Dawson’s sonnet about the Los Angeles area creates a compelling scene about the complexity of the lost Eden.
Read MorePosted by Cincinnati Review | Jun 15, 2022 | miCRo
In the short, clipped sentences and fragments of “Superjap,” KJ Nakazawa-Kern narrates an uncle and nephew’s trip to Japan.
Read MorePosted by Cincinnati Review | Jun 10, 2022 | Contests
Our summer contest, the Robert and Adele Schiff Awards, is underway! Send us your work before July 15.
Read MorePosted by Cincinnati Review | Jun 8, 2022 | miCRo
In an era of political division, this imaginative poem by Martha Silano details a literal division of the US back in the Cretaceous period.
Read MorePosted by Cincinnati Review | Jun 1, 2022 | miCRo
In the prose poem “34D,” Dorothy Chan uses a number and a letter to conjure up particular images that the poem both mentions and undercuts, in a statement about the poetics of sex.
Read MorePosted by Cincinnati Review | May 26, 2022 | Submission Trends and Tips
Our top 3 tips for impressing lit mags by following through on withdrawals, email correspondence, and submission guidelines.
Read MorePosted by Cincinnati Review | May 19, 2022 | Literary News
Congratulations to our contributors Aleyna Rentz and Wendy Cheng, whose work has been chosen for...
Read MorePosted by Cincinnati Review | May 18, 2022 | miCRo
Arthur Kayzakian’s compact ekphrastic prose poem “Anna Walinska” navigates big-picture questions of art and consumption.
Read MorePosted by Cincinnati Review | May 11, 2022 | miCRo
Two essays that grapple with the place of women in history, specifically an enslaved Native ancestor and a prehistoric “greatest grandmother.”
Read MorePosted by Cincinnati Review | May 10, 2022 | Interviews
Marcus Jackson shares how poetry and photography intersect for him and tells the story behind one of the photographs in our issue.
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