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By the poem’s end, the concept of “home” is destabilized and precarious. What is to be done when one kind of homemaking destroys another?
Read MorePosted by Cincinnati Review | Mar 10, 2021 | miCRo
By the poem’s end, the concept of “home” is destabilized and precarious. What is to be done when one kind of homemaking destroys another?
Read MorePosted by Cincinnati Review | Mar 9, 2021 | Editors' Dispatches
We’ve talked before about reading during the pandemic , but writing during this real-life Groundhog Day has presented its own challenges.
Read MorePosted by Cincinnati Review | Mar 4, 2021 | Submission Trends and Tips
In order to gather a wider range of perspectives on this question, I reached out to some Cincinnati Review contributors about when it’s time to gather your work and hit “submit.”
Read MorePosted by Cincinnati Review | Mar 3, 2021 | miCRo
Cristi Donoso Best’s “Caul” opens in medias res with the birthing of a calf. As the child-aged speaker observes the scene, the poem moves cinematically between the birth and the act of watching.
Read MorePosted by Cincinnati Review | Feb 25, 2021 | What We're Reading
A Room Called Earth and other autistic narratives challenge the false pathological stories society tells about our neurotype.
Read MorePosted by Cincinnati Review | Feb 24, 2021 | miCRo
Melissa Bowers’s hybrid piece “What I Know About Space” uses descriptions of the cosmos as a distancing tactic, its vignettes functioning as satellites swirling around a deeper issue for the speaker.
Read MorePosted by Cincinnati Review | Feb 18, 2021 | Submission Trends and Tips
Strong dialogue forwards plot, it demonstrates the nature of relationships, and it also (paradoxically) highlights what characters can’t or won’t say to one another.
Read MorePosted by Cincinnati Review | Feb 17, 2021 | miCRo
Cindy Juyoung Ok’s “Haunting Season” opens with a declaration that “the hunt” has begun. What follows is a series of reflections on the concept of the self, especially the self under surveillance, the self as an Othered reflection.
Read MorePosted by Cincinnati Review | Feb 11, 2021 | Why We Like It
Sarah Fawn Montgomery’s essay “The Experiment” shows how extensively the patriarchy has affected our education system and how these practices perpetuate sexual violence toward women.
Read MorePosted by Cincinnati Review | Feb 10, 2021 | Samples
Someone holds the makeshift beach up from one end, and the world floods, swell surging to one side...
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