MONDAY: UC's Cincinnati Review Holds First Contributor Reading

The Cincinnati Review (CR) is published by the Department of English and Comparative Literature in the McMicken College of Arts & Sciences. Fiction editor Brock Clarke was recently interviewed on WVXU. (Poetry editor is Don Bogen and managing editor is Nicola Mason.)

CR is a biannual literary journal that draws together within its pages some of the finest creative and critical work from across the country, providing a venue for writers of any background to showcase their best writing. Each issue contains fiction, poetry, essays and book reviews, and also features a portfolio of artwork from a nationally renowned artist.

Here's the starting lineup for the opening CR contributor reading:

Where: Joseph-Beth Booksellers in Rookwood Pavilion

When: Sept. 25 at 7 p.m.  

Who: Norman Finkelstein, Margaret Luongo and Michael Henson

Norman Finkelstein is a professor of English at Xavier University. His books of poetry include Restless Messengers (University of Georgia Press,1992) and the three-volume serial poem Track: Track (Spuyten Duyvil, 1999), Columns (Spuyten Duyvil, 2002), and Powers (Spuyten Duyvil, 2005). He has also written extensively about modern and postmodern poetry, and about Jewish-American literature. His most recent books of criticism are Not One of Them In Place: Modern Poetry and Jewish American Identity (SUNY, 2002) and Lyrical Interference: Essays on Poetics (Spuyten Duyvil, 2004). He is currently writing a book on religious revisionism in contemporary long poems.

Michael Henson is author of the chapbook The Tao of Longing (Dos Madres Press, 2005). Crow Call, his collection of poems on the murder of the homeless activist Buddy Gray, is due out shortly from West End Press. He has published in the Birmingham Poetry Review, Appalachian Journal and Blue Collar Review, among others. He is a frequent contributor to StreetVibes, the Cincinnati newspaper advocating for the homeless.

Margaret Luongo teaches fiction writing at Miami University. Her short stories have appeared in Tin House, Jane, Kalliope, Fence, Brilliant Corners, and other publications.

Luongo was also Cincinnati Review's first contributor-reviewer for Powells.com's "Review-a-Day." Her review of  The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil by George Saunders can be read on line, along with other CR reviews.