Cincinnati Review

  Associate Editor Molly Reid: To my deep shame, I don’t read enough poetry. As a fiction writer, I tend to get impatient with books of poetry—where is the story? I want to feel something. But I recently picked up Rajiv Mohabir’s The Taxidermist’s Cut, and I couldn’t stop reading. The poems in this book …

Natalie Villacorta talks about how working with children at WordPlay Cincy and Oyler High School helped her see her own writing practices.

MoPoetry Phillips discusses the power of writing therapy for those who have experienced trauma as well as for those in the corporate world.

L. S. Klatt on poet Kenneth Koch’s relationship to the city where he grew up.

  Managing Editor Lisa Ampleman: With a miCRo this diminutive, we’d like to keep our own words about it to a minimum. Suffice it to say that the Latinate title and austere form belie the depth of the message behind the poem, which is a reflection of this Anthropocene era and all that is rapidly …

Tyrone Williams on failed attempts to integrate Cincinnati’s literary scene

In Issue 20.2, one of our twentieth-anniversary issues, we present a special feature on where writing lives in Cincinnati. We reached out to six writers who are current or former residents of the city, giving them the following prompt: We’ve been thinking about Cincinnati as the site of intersections: of North and South, with the …