by José Angel Araguz Episode 3: Poetic Interludes with Rockstars [prologue: Counting Crows with Peteroy] On the first of December, Associate Editor Don Peteroy walked into the Cincinnati Review office and made a casual reference...
Read MoreRight. 2016. The world is another year older, but hey, still looking good! Well, except for the icecaps. And the ozone layer. And, er, all the trees that were burned to a crisp in the Northwest. And, um, all those flooded towns...
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Exciting stuff happening here—not just with the mag but with the lovely staff members who...
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Our winter issue has arrived! We’re busy stuffing, taping, stamping, and hauling...
Read MoreSamantha Edmonds: When I offered to write a review of Jenny Offill’s novel Department of Speculation, what I really wanted to do was open up a forum to gush. It’s not every day I find a book that I don’t simply enjoy or even...
Read MoreAnonymous 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 MoreThanks to the scads of readers who contributed to our Cento Contest! Actually, there were only two of you—but your centos delighted us—so much that we’re adding a full year to both your CR subscriptions. Same...
Read MoreRochelle Hurt: The cento is a collage form in which a poem is composed entirely of lines from other poems. It can be an homage to the originals, a subversive twist, or just a fun game. Contemporary examples of the form include...
Read MoreAssociate Editor Don Peteroy is back with another of the irrelevant questions that one might, if one were science-fictionally inclined, liken to little spaceships zooming madly around in his head, shooting out tractor beams in...
Read MoreCaitlin Doyle: Russian playwright Anton Chekhov famously advised writers that a gun introduced in the first act should always go off in the second. Poet Brandon Amico aims his gun in the opposite direction: “In my book of...
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