“The little patience I have, I learn from a mango tree. In Bangalore’s monsoon thunderstorms I stand with my grandmother, face tilted to the leafy sky…” —“Mango Season” by Preeti Talwai, in @cincinnatireview.bsky.social #APAHeritageMonth www.cincinnatireview.com/micros/mango...

The Schiff Awards are open! The Schiff Awards are open! Spring is springing! Win $1000 and publication in CR! Contest closes July 15. Link in thread.

Today on the site, Arah Ko shares four stunning poetry collections that honor rage—especially the feminine variety—to keep you company in the sauna of summer. Link in thread.

Check out one of our 2026 Poetry Selections, "Revision" by B. Do (The Cincinnati Review), selected by Cyrus Cassells on bestofthenetanthology.com/2026-2/2026-poetry/revision/ #bestofthenetanthology #poetrywriting #finalist

"Fiddlehead godhead maidenhead furred tendril up from ankle-deep bed, I unkneel moment by moment..." This week's miCRo, "Born Again" by Linda Parsons, is perfect for the season. Read the full essay on our site--link in thread.

"I remember wanting two specific things in the poem: the tradition of that intentional beginning of slave narratives ('I was born') and clear, deliberate, declarative speech." Stephen Foster Smith tells us about his poem "The Yam Reflects" in our spring issue. Link in thread.

"How many / bags, I wondered, would my life fit inside?" This week's miCRo is a short poem by Chelsea Rathburn that exhibits empathy for the woman of the title. Link in thread.

Congratulations to contributor Lauren E. Osborn on the publication of ENTOMOLOGY OF THE PINUP GIRL with Dzanc Books!

“‘You ready?’ the phlebotomist asks, holding out two vials. I nod and joke, ‘Sure, I’ve got enough.'” —Julia Kolchinsky’s essay “Of Blood & God & Dirt” in @cincinnatireview.bsky.social #JewishAmericanHeritageMonth www.cincinnatireview.com/articles/of-...

"Sometimes a poem is wearing too much makeup or too many jewels, and it needs one item removed before it leaves the house." Today on the site we speak to poet Gordon Taylor about his piece, "Memory Foam," in our upcoming issue. Link in thread.

"I’m a head with a buzz cut, rolling past, trying not to stall in the road on the way to my university astronomy class, when I’m compelled to stop and check on my body." In today's miCRo by @nbrogdonwrites.bsky.social, the mental and the physical are at odds. Link in thread.

“If after a bad night I need someone to blame, there are so many candidates.” —Carol Dorf’s “Conditional,” published in @cincinnatireview.bsky.social & featured in our reading list for #JewishAmericanHeritageMonth: www.cincinnatireview.com/micros/condi...

" . . . Modernist aesthetics, figurative language and the like weren’t capable of holding my pathos, let alone rage." Today on the site, contributor and emerging writer @gavinopoet.bsky.social talks to us about two works that appear in issue 22.2. Link in thread.

"I raised you to believe you deserved to win, but you didn’t always listen when I taught you how." This week's miCRo, "Ace of Hearts" by Julia Hou, stages the multiplicity of grief as a final, intimate game between father and daughter. Link in thread.

Congratulations to CR summer editor Arah Ko on today's publication of ANIMAL LOGIC with @bullcitypress.com !

Just found this by @addisonzeller.bsky.social via Bess Winter of @cincinnatireview.bsky.social in @smokelong.bsky.social interview… It was worth it! How the millennium bug made survivalism mainstream… And read by Addison too.

Congratulations to Adam Tavel on today's release of THE GHOST-STAR KING with The Word Works! buff.ly/cDErOX9

"Sending out work is a vulnerable process! So, I really do strive to read everything with care...seeing so many different styles, experiments, loci in slush makes me bolder as a writer, more expansive." Kate Jayroe and Andy Sia discuss their work at CR. Link in thread.

"Clawing our way forward. House by house. 'One at a time, all the way to Mariupol,' Bohdan used to say." This week's miCRo, chosen in part by a class from Amsterdam University College, is "House by House" by @lathamwithapen.bsky.social, which focuses on memory as fragmentary. Link in thread.

Congratulations to contributor James Ciano whose collection, THE COMMITTEE OF MEN, is out today from @boa-editions.bsky.social !

@ifkexists Carol Dorf's miCRo, "Conditional," patiently scrutinizes then ruptures expected notions surrounding cause and effect. Link in thread.

Next week, @kathryncowles.bsky.social and Donald Revell read in University of Cincinnati's Elliston Room. Ahead of that, hear their advice for newer writers, craft suggestions, and more. Link in thread.

"We call this pipe cleaning in my household, any time we ingest whole-grain-this or dark-leafy-green-that, to inject some levity into this public health crisis . . ." In this week's miCRo, Anastasia Nikolis investigates a public health crisis. Link in thread.

Congratulations to all of our contributors who have new books out this week! Celebrating work by @amitmajmudar.bsky.social , Chrissy Martin, Sara Elkamel, and Matthew Buckley Smith.

“(We see a house filled with moving boxes and one naked light bulb on the ceiling. We hear the last moments of rain. A small shadow moves...” Read an excerpt from Sadieh Rifai's play THE CAVE in @cincinnatireview.bsky.social! #ArabAmericanHeritageMonth www.cincinnatireview.com/articles/fro...

We couldn't be prouder of our own literary non-fiction editor @kristeniver.bsky.social -- a 2026 Guggenheim Fellow! @guggfellows.bsky.social

Closing soon! Send us your cnf manuscripts! 📚🖊️

Our latest in our Emerging Writers interview series features Siobhan Jean-Charles, whose poems "Ode to Freeze Spell" and "Springfield Ghazal" appear in our upcoming spring issue. Link in thread.

“Ballooning into a sky that now forgets To be anything but gray. All the red that wants to be the dark. Give me another Screen. Give me another lens…” —“Flame” by Anaya Marei in @cincinnatireview.bsky.social #ArabAmericanHeritageMonth www.cincinnatireview.com/micros/flame/

"Martha / organizes last death. / Better left untranslated." This week in miCRo, Aaliyah Anderson explores strange communions with the dead in a poem after Martha the last passenger pigeon. Link in thread.

Congratulations to contributor @mikhailbazharov.bsky.social on today's release of "Cloudwatcher" from @ampoetryreview.bsky.social !

"I followed memoir the way that a poet would do it, which is to offer another lensing or another redefinition of what the genre is doing." Today on the site, Erica Reid interviews contributor Maya Jewell Zeller about her new memoir, "Raised by Ferns." Link in thread.

"We apprenticed together / until morning touched our slouched / shoulders. Continued even when ants / punctuated the table in summer." In this week's miCRo, Hana Widerman offers a searing, colorful meditation on the past. Link in thread.

Celebrating a host of new publications from our contributors Gaylord Brewer, Tracy Zeman, @catherinepierce.bsky.social, and Rose McLarney.

As we near the end of Women's History Month, why not check out the work of our contributors A.A. Balaskovits, Bella Gibb and Shikhandin in the @clmporg.bsky.social Women's History Month reading list?

Shikhandin’s story “Ma’s Soul” begins, “One of these days, my soul is going to walk out on me. I’m sure of it. That damn soul is going to go someplace else.” Read the story from our #WomensHistoryMonth list in @cincinnatireview.bsky.social: www.cincinnatireview.com/micros/mas-s...

"Afterworld or nightclub: each of those low arrivals gets me high. Sublime!" On the site today, Joyelle McSweeney discusses ecstatic dismay and survival, style, writing influences, and more. Link in thread.

To all the writers: thank you for your overwhelming response to our call for submissions. We've reached our cap! Stay tuned for further calls and our Robert and Adele Schiff Prize!

Congratulations to miCRo contributor B. Do for the inclusion of "Revision" in BOTN!

In today's miCRo, Kelle Groom highlights the emotional journeys associated with grief. Link in thread.

"I’m drawn to art that is formally or stylistically responsive to changes in history and culture . . . But I’m more interested in asking the question—what do we need now?—than in answering it." Today on the site, Mialise Carney interviews Danielle Dutton. Link in thread.

To all literary nonfiction writers: submissions to issue 23.2 are open, and LNF Editor Kristen Iversen is searching for pieces that center around the theme of "Reckoning." Send us your best work on the topic via our new Submittable portal. Link to submit in first comment.

Congrats to Acre author @thejs3.bsky.social whose #novel, DEFIANT ACTS, is a #ForewordINDIE Finalist in the category of #fiction (multicultural)! 🎉🎉🎉 press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

"Another word for it, I later learn, the dark cloud surging / from the field and shitting as it heaves in sudden unity, / is crèche..." Our miCRo this week, a propulsive poem by Kylan Rice, picks up on an array of material textures and coalesces into a felt impression of place. Link in thread.

Congratulations to contributor CD Eskilon, whose translation of work by Swedish poet Edith Södergran, MODERN WOMAN, was released last week by @worldpoetrybooks.bsky.social !

You asked, we delivered! Not only are submissions for both the journal and miCRo OPEN, but we've transitioned to Submittable! We can't wait to read what you send our way!

Bella Gibb’s “In Transit” begins, “I try to picture them all as babies. Whenever my stomach lurches around a man, I remind myself he once toddled around in diapers, loved a mother…” Read the essay in @cincinnatireview.bsky.social for #WomensHistoryMonth: www.cincinnatireview.com/micros/micro...

So many wonderful contributor books launching this week and last! Congratulations to Anna Lena Phillips Bell, Matthew Pitt, Maya Jewell Zeller, and @equitation.bsky.social on their newly released titles. @cmupress.bsky.social @porphyrypress.bsky.social @ohiostatepress.bsky.social

We can’t believe it’s already the last day of the #awp2026 bookfair! Drop by booth 1065 for 25% off our swag and a last chance to try the Manifestation Machine!

Speak with our genre editors today in AWP booth 1065! Catch Fiction Editor Michael Griffith between 9:30am and 10:30am, and Poetry Editor Rebecca Lindenberg from 11am-1pm!