Special Feature: “Sitting Inside the Poem” by Richard Hague
Cincinnati writer Richard Hague on a local landmark and its connections to his experiences reading a poem closely and personally.
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Author: Cincinnati Review
On Craft: Rebecca Bernard on Plotting Character
A craft exercise about how to understand character through plot and vice versa
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from “The Theft” by Rebecca Bernard
On the night of the break-in, I was upstairs painting my daughter’s bedroom. I hoped Erin would...
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miCRo: “The Man Under the Blanket” by Lisa Thornton
A story that examines the nature of belonging to a family, with an undercurrent of imagined violence.
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Special Feature: “long live the queen” by Tramaine Suubi
A poem that traverses nearly two millennia of African queens, in stanzas that overlap seamlessly
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Robert Thomas reads from “Sonnets with Riff and Hook”
Poet Robert Thomas reads two sections of his sonnet crown published in Issue 21.2.
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from “Sonnets with Riff and Hook” by Robert Thomas
Sonnet with Church and Osso Buco The mystery of the Song of Songs: the priests’rationalizations of...
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from “The Girl Who Loved Boyan Slat” by Paula Closson Buck
We’re driving the largest cleanup in history. . . . We let the plastic come to us, using the ocean...
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“Emily Leaves Switzerland” by John Fulton
It was a warm midsummer night and getting dark now as Emily and a group of close friends sat on...
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“Turn Your Back to the Forest” by Karolina Letunova
Ivanych stumbled out onto the porch, squinting against the cruel brightness of snow. Not a curl of...
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