Room for Something Unwieldy by Christine Robbins
Christine Robbins writes about her poem "Wake." You can read "Wake" in Issue 42.1 of Cream City Review and by clicking here. * A few years ago, the poem was two stanzas and less than a page long, with a uniform left margin. It was titled “If...
read moreInterview with 2020 Poetry Prize Judge E.J. Koh
This year’s Cream City Review Summer Prize in Poetry will be judged by the poet and memoirist E.J. Koh. In this micro-interview conducted by Editor-in-Chief, Su Cho, E.J. discusses moments of surprise during her writing process, what makes a poem memorable, and what...
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Interview with 2020 Fiction Prize Judge Lucy Tan
This year’s Cream City Review Summer Prize in Fiction will be judged by award-winning novelist and short-story writer Lucy Tan. In this micro-interview conducted by Fiction Editor Jessie Roy, Lucy weighs in on class and power in fiction, how “things” shape our...
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2020 Cream City Live! Reading by Marlin M. Jenkins
Even though we had to cancel our annual Cream City Live! Reading, we wish to continue this tradition by bringing the event to you in the form of online blog posts and videos featuring our brilliant cast of writers. Our first reader is the talented Marlin M. Jenkins!
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“An Excess of Grossness” by Emmy Newman
I never want to stop being interested in imagining what my phalanges look like under all this skin, how mushrooms grow in cow shit, what led sea cucumbers to vomit their intestines in self-defense, what brains look like under microscopes. I ask the reader to bodily identify with themselves in the end, with our own human grossness, and I ask them to recognize how amazing that is.
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