Category: Staff Picks
A Year in Blogs
What’s fascinated CR blog-writers these past few months?
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Gwen E. Kirby Reads “A Good-Looking Couple” by Etgar Keret
Ever wonder what our staff reads when they’re not reading your submissions or reading for...
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Staff Picks: Favorite Poems and Prose Passages
We’ve begun asking CR staff and volunteers to read their favorite poems and passages of...
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Why We Like It: “Make No Bones about It” by Cindy Beebe
Rochelle Hurt: In music, riffing usually refers to a method of composition in which a single...
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What We’re Reading: The Locusts Have No King
Alex Smith: Hemingway once called Dawn Powell (sarcastically, perhaps) his favorite living writer,...
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Why We Like It: “Abeyance” by Amanda Lee Kallis
Rochelle Hurt: Hybridity is a topic of much discussion of late: hybrid cars, hybrid crops, hybrid...
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Why We Like It: Daneen Bergland’s “Animals Invaluable to Epidemiologists for Tracking the Spread of Disease Will Appear to Us as Angels”
Sara Watson: As an animal lover, I was immediately drawn to the subject of Daneen Bergland’s...
Read MorePutting the Period on Our Reading Period
Nicola Mason: As they say in the auction world when something is about to go, Fair warning! In this case, our Submission Manger is about to go offline for the usual issue-filling bits of poetry and prose. If you want to shoot...
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While awaiting proofs for our Summer 2013 issue, due out in May, we CR editors decided to write a little something about our favorite pieces. Here’s Assistant Editor Brian Trapp: As soon as I read Michael Reid Busk’s...
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We’ve just finished finalizing edits on our upcoming issue, which means that we’ve become very familiar with the stories, poems, and essays contained within. Like, super familiar. Like,...
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We’re finalizing edits for Cincinnati Review 10.1, our Summer 2013 issue. CR editors were asked to write a little something about their favorite pieces. That’s good. It’s been difficult to contain our...
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