Cincinnati Review

A Year in Blogs

Posted by Cincinnati Review | Apr 20, 2023 | Staff Picks

What’s fascinated CR blog-writers these past few months?

miCRo: “Mirror” by Claire Polders

Posted by Cincinnati Review | Apr 19, 2023 | miCRo

The brief moment captured in “Mirror” reveals time in all its dimensions and reversals.

2023 Nominations for Best New Poets and Pushcart Second Round

Posted by Cincinnati Review | Apr 13, 2023 | Literary News

Our incredible nominees for Best New Poets, and the second round of Pushcart nominations, by Pushcart’s board of contributing editors.

miCRo: from “There Is News along the Ohio River” by Beth Gilstrap

Posted by Cincinnati Review | Apr 12, 2023 | miCRo

Two entries from Beth Gilstrap’s series “There Is News along the Ohio River” balance survival and awe.

miCRo: “Leftist Love Song” by Jay Julio

Posted by Cincinnati Review | Apr 5, 2023 | miCRo

Jay Julio’s “Leftist Love Song” pokes and prods at all the ways our current political climate has disappointed us, and peels back the mask of the “American dream” to reveal the devastation that lies beneath it.

What We’re Reading: Crooked Smiling Light

Posted by Cincinnati Review | Mar 30, 2023 | What We're Reading

Violence, King argues, is something Black men must inherit to survive even their own blood.

miCRo: “Telling It” by Chiwenite Onyekwelu

Posted by Cincinnati Review | Mar 29, 2023 | miCRo

“What small hand has / all my infant blood?” What begins as a meditation on the scars on the speaker’s back becomes a portrait of unfathomable pain in equally unfathomable grace.