Writers’ Day Jobs: CD Eskilson
CD Eskilson, poet and communications manager, on their day job
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Author: Cincinnati Review
“Birdwatching” by CD Eskilson
Now I’m a person who can spot a nuthatch, point to grosbeaks, have taughtmyself the clowning chip...
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miCRo: “Summit” by Deb Werrlein
I say no age is too old for living.
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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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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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