miCRo: “My Family and I Disagree about Politics” by Heather Lanier
Heather Lanier’s poem looks at family disagreements about politics through the lens of the body in a surgical theater, being cut into.
Read MorePosted by Cincinnati Review | May 19, 2021 | miCRo
Heather Lanier’s poem looks at family disagreements about politics through the lens of the body in a surgical theater, being cut into.
Read MorePosted by Cincinnati Review | May 12, 2021 | miCRo
In Amy Chen’s essay “Knowing,” innocence and family secrets come together to create a profound change in the speaker and her understanding of her world.
Read MorePosted by Cincinnati Review | May 11, 2021 | Inspiration
One way to make inspiration visible outside the poems written for a particular project is to visually map connections between sources–how does what you’re reading form an ecosystem?
Read MorePosted by Cincinnati Review | May 6, 2021 | Writers' Day Jobs
The first in a new series of features on writers’ day jobs.
Read MorePosted by Cincinnati Review | May 5, 2021 | miCRo
In this piece, as the text notches inward through the use of indentations, mimicking a scaffold, the boundary between inside and outside starts to break down…
Read MorePosted by Cincinnati Review | Apr 29, 2021 | microreview & interview
An interview with Diamond Forde about Mother Body, her debut collection of poems. From reviewer Marianne Chan: “These poems—with brilliant images and startling musicality—resist erasure and destruction…”
Read MorePosted by Cincinnati Review | Apr 28, 2021 | miCRo
“Origins” by Kelly Fig Smith weaves together issues of identity, history, and the body to form a complicated and compelling picture of family and motherhood.
Read MorePosted by Cincinnati Review | Apr 23, 2021 | Literary News
Announcing our nominations for the Best New Poets anthology–and two pieces we published that will appear in Best of the Net and The Orison Anthology…
Read MorePosted by Cincinnati Review | Apr 21, 2021 | miCRo
“Those Statues of Old,” contextualized by the 1897 massacre and looting of Benin City by the British, is a simultaneously expansive and intimate meditation on the possibilities and impossibilities of poems to speak to the dead
Read MorePosted by Cincinnati Review | Apr 15, 2021 | Interviews
Drama Editor Brant Russell interviews Beth Hyland about genre considerations in her play All-One! The Dr. Bronner Play and about the future of theater.
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