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Magazine Stand :: Cimarron Review – 225

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Since 1967, Cimarron Review has published imaginative, truth-driven poetry, fiction, and nonfiction by emerging writers alongside celebrated, award-winning literary voices. The newest issue (225) continues the tradition with poetry by Diana K. Malek, Jenn Blair, Lisa Titus, Sharon Lin, Dorsia Smith Silva, A.E. Stallings, Marisa Lin, Barbara Duffey, Jessica E. Pierce, SM Stubbs, Judith Skillman, Alec Hershman, Ori Fienberg, Danielle Hanson, Luke Hankins, Athena Kildegaard, nonfiction by Andrew Bertaina, Allison Field Bell, and fiction by Nona Caspers, Rebecca Orchard, JP Gritton, and Andrew Malan Milward.

Cimarron Review is a national journal of arts, letters, and opinions, published in the Winter, Spring, Summer, and Fall at Oklahoma State University, Stillwater.

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Magazine Stand :: Cimarron Review – 221 & 222

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This newest double issue of Cimarron Review (221 & 222) offers readers fiction, nonfiction, and poetry with a wide-ranging aesthetic, favoring the bold and ruminative, the sensitive and shocking, imaginative and truth-telling. Contributors include Eryn Green, H. Thao Nguyen, Ash Good, Michael Mark, Tara A. Elliott, Angela Ball, Lydia T. Liu, Nicole Melanson, Cecil Morris, Sergio Reyes, Jane E. Martin, Bergita Bugarija, Ashira Shirali, Ben Walter, Richard Sonnenmoser, Divya Mehrish, and many more. Cover art: “State Forest Campground” by Michelle Disler.

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Magazine Stand :: Cimarron Review – 219 & 220

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Cimarron Review’s double issue (219/220) is out and features poetry by Donald Illich, Kate Peterson, Christopher Ankney, D.S. Butterworth, Mitchell Untch, Cindy Xin, Nancy Eimers, Mac McClaran, Nicholas Samaras, Lesley Wheeler, Mark Belair, Nick Norwood, Liz Robbins, Ted Kooser, Babette Cieskowski, Quinn Carver Johnson & Todd Fuller, Lex Orgera, Elisabeth Murawski, Carrie Shipers, Bruce CohenCloe Watson, Mary Vogt Myers, and many more; fiction by Sue Brennan, Will Ejzak, Raymond Fleischmann, James Sullivan; and nonfiction by Lise Funderburg, Nicholas Stevens, Michael Topp, and Rebecca Edgren.

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Magazine Stand :: Cimarron Review – 214 & 215

Cimarron Review Winter Spring 2021 literary magazine cover image

The Winter/Spring 2021 release of Cimarron Review is a double issue (214 & 215) and features Poetry by Mischelle Anthony, Wale Ayinla, Aliki Barnstone, Margo Berdeshevsky, Ralph Burns, Justin Carter, Lisa Compo, Steven Cramer, Mary Crow, Jim Daniels, Jordan Durham, Rebecca Griswold, Susan Gubernat, Mark Halliday, Lisa M. Hase-Jackson, Jaimee Hills, Kjerstin Anne Kauffman, Jenna Le, Harriet Levin, Richard Lyons, Naomi Mulvihill, Shannon Nakai, Amanda Newell, Joanna Novak, Kristel Rietesel-Low, Judith Skillman, Darius Stewart, Sarah R. Stockton, Cheyenne Taylor, Lauren Tess, Lee Colin Thomas, Natalie Tombasco, Julia Wendell, Margot Wizansky, Theodora Ziolkowski; Fiction by Kawika Guillermo, Mike Broida, Janis Hubschman, Barry Kitterman, David Mizner, Kirstin Scott; Nonfiction by Bill Marsh, Eric Pankey, Hannah Baker Saltmarsh, and Jackie Stowers, with cover art by Marissa Klee-Peregon.

Cimarron Review – Fall 2020

In this issue of Cimarron Review: poetry by Ken Autrey, Martha Silano, Sandra McPherson, Daniel Bourne, Erin McIntosh, George Bilgere, Annie Christian, Rebecca Cross, Chloe Hanson, Austen Leah Rose, Millie Tullis, Avra Wing, Amy Bagan, and more; fiction by Jason K. Friedman, Laura Dzubay, David Philip Mullins, and Ashley Clarke; and nonfiction by Brenna Womer, Andrew Johnson, and Lindsay Shen.

“Comfort Poems” in Cimarron Review

Magazine Review by Katy Haas.

Issue 212 of Cimarron Review includes what feel like the comfort food of poetry. After a long week, it felt good to sit wrapped up in a blanket with this issue in my lap.

Victoria Hudson offers warmth to readers of “11th & Quaker.” Inside the apartment, the speaker and another person complete a crossword and watch well-known The Office. There’s comfort in the familiarity of both tasks, a quiet intimacy surrounding them.

Kim Kent’s “At the YMCA” shows us a different scene of intimacy as YMCA lifeguards practice CPR on one another “just to be sure,” all of them “generous with our drowned / and undrowned lips.” Kent kindles the heat of summer and the closeness of the two bodies with expertise.

David Ruekberg offers a “Cure for Thought” with a list of instructions that both calm and inspire the reader. He quietly guides us to observe and imagine until we reach the final, always useful step: “Listen.”

Make time to stop and listen to the words of the writers in this issue of Cimarron Review and find your own comfort poems.

Four Poems from Cimarron Review

Magazine Review by Katy Haas

The Spring 2020 issue of Cimarron Review is a slim one, but here is still plenty in its pages to keep a reader company, including a fine selection of poetry.

This selection includes Ethan Joella’s ruminations on the titular magazines that his “wife’s mother read in the hospital,” and a desire to destroy them to protect his wife in her grief. Joella creates a tender piece that focuses on his wife’s love for her mother, as well as his love for his wife.

Leslie McGrath asks one eight-word question in “Pink Inquiry,” a poem that makes impact with its simplicity. Christopher Brean Murray reflects on his childhood dogs “Duke & Pam,” and the way he has “never been able / to get into a poem the way” he felt about them. What results is a sweet poem about the three finding warmth and comfort in one another.

William Reichard in “Tinnitus (in Four Movements)” describes his relationship with the ringing in his ears, using the sound of cicadas as a way to lead this exploration. I read the fourth movement repeatedly, pulled in. “There was no escape from / the pulse of his own blood,” it reads, the stanza itself feeling as inescapable as the sound.

Take some time to visit the poetry in this issue of Cimarron Review, as well as the five pieces of prose also inside.

Cimarron Review – Issue 211

Issue 211 of Cimarron Review features poetry by Bonnie Auslander, Clemonce Heard, Leslie McGrath, Emily Franklin, Chris Haven, Matt Morgan, Laura McKee, Bryce Berkowitz, Elisabeth Murawski, Jan Beatty, Kayla Sargeson, and others; fiction by Andrew Geyer, Molly Anders, and Steven Wingate; and nonfiction by Ephraim Scott Sommers and Caroline Sutton. This issue’s cover art is “River Fog” by Richard Speedy.

Cimarron Review – Winter 2020

In the Winter 2020 issue of Cimarron Review: poetry by Allison Hutchcraft, Jennifer Funk, Toshiaki Komura, Amy Bilodeau, Monica Joy Fara, Darren C. Demaree, Laura Read, Isabelle Barricklow, Amber Arnold, Meriwether Clarke, Amie Irwin, Ben Swimm, Sophia Parnok, Brooke Sahni, Will Cordeiro, and Patrick Yoergler; fiction by Nancy Welch, Dan Pope, and Michael Deagler; and nonfiction by R Dean Johnson and Jon Volkmer.

Best American Essays 2020 Sponsor Spotlights

Best American Essays 2020Congratulations to two of NewPages sponsored magazines for having selections included in the Best American Essays 2020 due out on November 3, 2020. This year’s anthology was curated by guest editor André Aciman and series editor Robert Atwan.

“My Pink Lake and Other Digressions” by Alison Townsend was originally published in an issue of Cimarron Review. Jerald Walker’s “Breathe” was featured in New England Review 40.3.

Cimarron Review – Fall 2019

Cimarron Review - Fall 2019

The Fall 2019 issue of Cimarron Review offers poetry by Jacqueline Winter Thomas, Shavahn Dorris-Jefferson, Luke Patterson, Ainsley Kelly, Anne Delana Reeves, Khaleel Gheba, Zach Mueller, Dayna Patterson, Laura Green, Adam Clay, Sophia Stid, Margaret Cipriano, G.C. Waldrep, and Athena Kildegaard; fiction by Robin Becker, Catherine Wong, JP Gritton, and Clancy McGlligan; and nonfiction by Danielle Thien. Our cover art is “Esotrope” by Monica McFawn.

Cimarron Review – Issue 147

I have such a crush on this literary magazine that it’s not even funny. Two years ago, literally their spring 2002 issue, had a poem by Jennifer Boyden, a poem I fell in love with, and subsequently fell in love with the magazine, and since have read it, oh, quarterly basically (skipped one). I can’t say that each time I’ve found another Jennifer Boyden (seriously: as good as Waldrep, D. Young, OK Davis, Matthea Harvey, you name it), but each time I’ve found poems and fiction to gladly pass time with. This time, of course, is no different: Charles Harper Webb, Dean Kostos, Katherine Riegel, Lauren Goodwin, for example. In the best possible way, this magazine is like the Volvo of lit mags: imagine, literally wrap your head around, 147 issues (that’s, what…37 years? As in: august company, the group of lit mags older than ten years). And it’s never flashy, and I rarely find those ads for it in other journals that brag that the Cimarron Review is some amazing secret, publishing the best and the brightest faster and earlier than everyone else. No, it’s simple: it just publishes, consistently, four times a year, all sorts of work you need, even if you don’t know until that last line, the one that forces the quick inhale of recognition and gladness. [Cimarron Review, 205 Morrill Hall, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK 74078-4069. E-mail: [email protected]. Single issue $7. https://cimarronreview.com/contact_us.html] – WC