On our site now, an essay (with photos) by Stephanie Early Green about the intergenerational experience of eating and hunger issues:
An essay on the intergenerational experience of eating and hunger issues, with photographs.
"We eloped the week after the moon landing, the Apollo men back on earth but still quarantined." In this week's miCRo, @davidwrites1.bsky.social takes us back and forth in time and space to tell the story of a marriage:
David DeGusta foregrounds the mysticism of the personal against the era-defining scientific advancements of the moon landing, using a precisely-rendered long retrospective POV to take us to new and un...
Submissions to our annual Robert and Adele Schiff Awards are OPEN! Send us your best poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. Winners receive $1000 and publication in The Cincinnati Review. Contest ends July 15.
Submissions to our annual contest are open.
If you're looking for issue 21.1, just follow this thread. 🧵 (It's hitting mailboxes right now, along with a special gift for our subscribers: TOM POSTELL: ON THE LIFE AND WORK OF AN AMERICAN MASTER).
"many believe madness to be a doubling, or more, of identity, a self in shards but it’s an entering :: " This week's miCRo is a complex look at mental illness in a concrete poem by Christopher Nelson:
Christopher Nelson's concrete poem looks at mental illness in a complex, gripping way.
In this special feature, contributor Christine Hale shares a poem by her late husband, Kevin "Mc" McIlvoy.
Contributor Christine Hale looks closely at grief and creativity by way of "Gemels," a poem by her late husband, Kevin McIlvoy.
"I’m only getting stronger with every pixel I ingest. You don’t get glutes like these with an unstable Wi-Fi connection." In Parker Wilson's "I'm Stronger Than the Romans," we meet an online fitness addict with an unforgettable voice.
In this piece by Parker Wilson, we meet an online fitness addict with an unforgettable voice.
In celebration of the release of issue 21.1, @ravimangla.bsky.social shares the perfect spring recipe to accompany his story, "Flavors of Tuscany."
Ravi Mangla shares an unusual recipe for pesto.
"At Jagannath Temple, after climbing dozens of flights, my mother stops breathing." In this week's miCRo, "Devotee," Shlagha Borah shows a mother's devotion to her faith and a daughter's devotion to her mother.
A prose poem with the juxtaposition of holy sites and vile acts
Editorial Assistant Sam Simas interviews National Book Award-winning translator Bruna Dantas Lobato about her work translating Stênio Gardel’s *The Words That Remain* (New Vessel Press) and her own book of fiction forthcoming with Grove Atlantic:
Fiction writer and translator Bruna Dantas Lobato, who has addressed the dearth of queer Lusophone literature translated into English