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ALT white text on a dark-gray background: nightly departure / into the dreaming / water made of wave / forms oscillating in / to the body's container. D. W. Baker, "Traversing Floodwaters in Helios's Cup"

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ALT Red text on a cream background: Submit your best work to the 2026 Robert and Adele Schiff Awards. In the middle of that phrase are two red lions facing each other. Below is a red box with other red text: $1000 prize, Publication in The Cincinnati Review, Contest closes July 15, poetry, fiction, LNF

ALT White text on a dark gray background: "And really, how many of us have spent the entire weekend in one pair of sweatpants, lounging around the house, putting off chores, or nursing a recent breakup . . . Sean Thomas Dougherty, 'Green Hoodie'"

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ALT Schiff graphic featuring CR's lion mascots. Text reads, "Submit your best work to the 2026 Robert and Adele Schiff Awards. $1000 prize. Publication in The Cincinnati Review. Poetry, fiction, LNF."

ALT Photo of Ko and quote: "While I was stewing in front of an AC unit and mulling over some poems, I thought, why not embrace the heat? The anger and the temperature."

ALT White text on a dark-gray background: Fiddlehead godhead maidenhead furred tendril up from ankle-deep bed, I unkneel moment by moment. Linda Parsons, "Born Again"

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ALT White text over a black and purple background: Emerging Writers, Stephen Foster Smith, Poet and CR 23.1 contributor ("The Yam Reflects") On the left is a circular photo of a Black man with a beard in a pink ballcap. He's in a kind of bluish light.

ALT White text on a dark-gray background: "How many / bags, I wondered, would my life fit inside?" Chelsea Rathburn, "The Bag Lady"

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