Generic Husband presents a queer take on an old, beloved, and troublesome subject: the husband. While the “generic husband” of the cultural imagination h...

Friends of Martha Silano read from her posthumous collection, Terminal Surreal, newly released by Acre Books

Drawing on the author’s experiences, this debut novel follows an interracial blended family living in Chicago in the 1990s.   James Stewart III’s powerful debut novel documents the life of a working-c...

Shara Lessley on the craft of writing about family secrets in literary nonfiction

Get ideas on how to write a strong description of your poetry manuscript!

ALT: a hamster is standing on its hind legs and looking at the camera .

Remembering Mark Alfred Phillips, our great-uncle who was estranged from the family

The Moth is a nonprofit organization that builds empathy through live and virtual storytelling shows, open-mic storytelling events, The Moth Radio Hour, The Moth Podcast and storytelling workshops.

ALT: a woman is standing in a room with a bed and a lamp and says there 's a chill in my bones .

from The Cincinnati Review

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A video ode to the places where poetry lives and has lived in Cincinnati, from contributor Jim Palmarini.