Our 2025 Summer Contest Winners!
We are thrilled to announce Susan Muth and Mohammadsaleh Sahragard as our winners! Susan Muth's "Main Post Chapel" was selected by MICHAEL CHANG as the winner for our 2025 Summer Poetry contest! and Mohammadsaleh Sahragard's "Morphine and the Knight" was selected by...
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There is a lot to be said about fifty years. In the scheme of a literary landscape, it is many, many generations, but cream city review’s ethos remains young, vibrant, and contemporary. In these pages is witnessed the tides of many passing eras, trends come and gone,...
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by Luise Noe On the surface, Torey Akers’ Revolutionary Algorithms: A TikTok Manifesto (Grand Central, 2025) explores the counter-hegemonic potential of TikTok and the (fabricated) political outrage against the app on the eve of its ban, which ultimately never was....
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