“The Three Deaths” by Ada Limón
At the sentencing, a snake of painroiled inside her veins. She did not faint or scream, or sink to...
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“We speak of a person as a body—” by Emma Aylor
in the South, a body might do that, orit makes a body feel some type of way.Here rounding at the...
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excerpt from “Erasure: Lineage” by Casandra López
My parents have lived in the same house for most of my life. Father selected the house because of...
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excerpt from “Dolls” by Eleanor Garran
When I was a child, everything was perfect all the time. I was long planned for and executed with...
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excerpt from “The Stories You Write about Mimico” by Bess Winter
from section Four: No One Who Played with the Rolling Stones Ever Lived on Norris Crescent Even...
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excerpt from “The Very Great Abyss” by Pam Durban
Her name is Miranda, and she’s an Engler on her father’s side, raised to be proud of the good her...
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miCRo: “The Man I Do Not Sleep With” by Daniella Toosie-Watson
The uniquely bright-blue sky, the grass, butterflies, and turtles in the poem are all part of a world that reimagines the typical relationship between lovers, but also between nature and the body.
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Reading and Drinking: “Reality TV” by Michael Kardos
We here at The Cincinnati Review are thrilled to showcase an exciting new collaboration with Reading and Drinking: A Cocktail Blog!
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“Reality TV” by Michael Kardos
I was feeling nostalgic the other day while talking to my wife about the malls of New Jersey. I...
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miCRo: “Burger King was once home” by NaBeela Washington
At each level of poetic craft, Washington draws a stark contrast between the speaker’s deliberate reflections on home-making, on love, and other children’s frantic consumption in a fast food restaurant.
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