Articles, Essays, Reviews, & Work With The Cincinnati Review
Information about Caitlin Doyle’s Prose Writings: Highlights, 2013 – present
Caitlin has been awarded the Meringoff Nonfiction Prize through the Association of Literary Scholars, Critics, and Writers for her essay “The World’s Weight: Artifice and Reality in Richard Wilbur’s Poetry.” To read an announcement on the ALSCW website about this year’s Meringoff Prize recipients, including Caitlin, in a variety of genres, you can click here. To read Caitlin’s winning essay in Literary Matters 12.1, you can click here. The essay has also been featured in the “Poetry News” section on the Poetry Foundation blog. To check out the feature, titled “Together at Last, Thanks to Caitlin Doyle: Richard Wilbur, Edgar Allan Poe, and Foucault,” you can click here
Caitlin’s essay “Formal Innovation as a Register for Racial Complexity in Three Poems by Gwendolyn Brooks” appears in Volume XLVI of MidAmerica, the peer-reviewed scholarly journal of the Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature. To read more about the journal and the Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature, you can click here
Caitlin’s review of Amit Majmudar’s poetry collection “Dothead” (published by Knopf) appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books. To read the review, you can click here. The review has also been featured in the “Poetry News” section on the Poetry Foundation blog. To check out the feature, titled “Praise: Los Angeles Review of Books on Amit Majmudar’s Dothead,” you can click here
Caitlin’s review of “The Selected Poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay” (published by Yale University Press) appeared in Literary Matters. To read the review, you can click here. The review has also been featured in the “Poetry News” section on the Poetry Foundation blog. To check out the feature, titled “A New Selected Outlines Edna St. Vincent Millay’s Importance for Contemporary Readers,” you can click here
In celebration of National Poetry Month every year, twenty poets who have been featured on Poetry Daily within the previous twelve months receive an invitation to present a poem for the “Poet’s Pick” series. Participating poets are asked to select a poem from their “personal pantheons of beloved work” and write a brief introduction to it. Caitlin presented “Eros Turannos” by Edwin Arlington Robinson. To read her piece about Robinson’s poem, you can click here
Caitlin’s review of Maxine Kumin’s poetry collection “And Short The Season” (published by W.W Norton & Company) appeared in Blackbird. To read the review, you can click here
Caitlin’s essay “Kerouac’s Junk Mail, Merrill’s Ouija Board: Living With Literary Ghosts” was published in The Angle and reprinted in the Fantastic Floridas Series through Burrow Press. From the editor’s introduction at The Angle:
“… Doyle has traveled all over the United States for Writer-In-Residence positions and teaching posts, including coveted fellowships at the James Merrill House in Stonington, CT, and the Jack Kerouac House in Orlando, FL. We recently asked her to reflect, for readers of The Angle, on her experience living and writing in both writers’ houses, and on her journey as an emerging writer. Her essay beautifully explores questions of literary influence and the discoveries that come when one lives with the ghosts, whether actual or imagined, of other writers …”
- To read Caitlin’s essay “Kerouac’s Junk Mail, Merrill’s Ouija Board: Living With Literary Ghosts” on the Burrow Press website, you can click here
Caitlin’s review of Will Schutt’s poetry collection “Westerly,” winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize, appeared in Blackbird. To read the review, you can click here
Caitlin’s review of Heidy Steidlmayer’s poetry collection “Fowling Piece” (published by Northwestern University Press) appeared as a 32 Poems Magazine Prose Feature. To read the review, you can click here
Caitlin’s review of Jane Satterfield’s third poetry collection “Her Familiars” (published by Elixir Press) appeared in The Common. To read the review, you can click here
Caitlin was invited to write an essay for Cork Literary Review, one of Ireland’s premier publications. Her piece “Hungry Hills: Coming of Age as an Irish American Poet” appeared in the journal’s “Gathering Edition,” which features a roster of writers from Ireland and America reflecting on Irish identity. Though the full text of “Hungry Hills: Coming of Age as an Irish American Poet” isn’t available online, you can click here to read about Caitlin’s essay as discussed in The Irish Examiner
Samples of Caitlin Doyle’s Work With The Cincinnati Review:
Below are examples of content that Caitlin generated for The Cincinnati Review during her time as both an Assistant Editor and an Associate Editor. You’ll find close readings that she has written for the journal’s popular “Why We Like It” series, a feature that focuses on discussing work published in the CR, as well as pieces she has penned for the journal’s “What We’re Reading” series, a regular column in which CR editors highlight recent books that have held them in thrall.
You’ll also find Caitlin’s introductions to several pieces in the CR‘s award-winning “miCRo series,” a feature presenting work that is 500 words or less (for fiction, nonfiction, or hybrid pieces) and poems that are 32 lines or less.
The writers whose work Caitlin has presented, introduced, or written about for The Cincinnati Review include G.C. Waldrep, Hugh Martin, Brendan Galvin, Martha Silano, Diana Khoi Nguyen, Rajiv Mohabir, Lynn Potts, Lesley Jenike, May-lee Chai, Brandon Amico, Emilia Phillips, Brian Ma, Jess Smith, Alex Dimitrov, Bruce Johnson, Simone Muench, Jackie K. White, Nance Van Winckel, Paul Haney, Stephen Kampa, Nicky Beer, Miriam Bird Greenberg, Faylita Hicks, and Alexandra Teague.
To read Caitlin’s piece about Brandon Amico‘s poem “Book of Distances” for the CR‘s “Why We Like It” series, you can click here
To read Caitlin’s piece about Lynne Potts‘s poem “Family Photo of America” for the CR‘s “Why We Like It” series, you can click here
To read Caitlin’s piece about Rajiv Mohabir‘s book “The Taxidermist’s Cut” for the CR‘s “What We’re Reading” series, you can click here
To read Caitlin’s introduction to G.C. Waldrep‘s piece “new year’s poem” for the CR‘s miCRo series, you can click here
To read Caitlin’s introduction to Hugh Martin‘s poem “Iraq Good” (which was awarded a Pushcart Prize!) for the CR‘s miCRo series, you can click here
To read Caitlin’s introduction to Martha Silano‘s poem “Gifts for the Adventurous Man” for the CR‘s miCRo series, you can click here
To read Caitlin’s “What We’re Reading” post about poetry collections by CR contributors Miriam Bird Greenberg and Susannah Nevison, you can click here
To read Caitlin’s introduction to Lesley Jenike‘s flash essays “The Rape of Europa” and “Incensing the Veil” for the CR‘s miCRo series, you can click here
To read Caitlin’s introduction to Diana Khoi Nguyen‘s flash essay “Reorient” for the CR‘s miCRo series, you can click here
To read Caitlin’s introduction to Alexandra Teague‘s “[It is undone business I speak of, this morning]” for the CR‘s miCRo series, you can click here
To read Caitlin’s introduction to Nicky Beer‘s poem “Metaphor” for the CR‘s miCRo series, you can click here
To read Caitlin’s introduction to Brendan Galvin‘s poem “Summer Dawn, Summer Nightgown” for the CR‘s miCRo series, you can click here
To read Caitlin’s introduction to May-lee Chai‘s flash essay “Telling” for the CR‘s miCRo series, you can click here
To read Caitlin’s introduction to Paul Haney‘s poem “The Spoils” for the CR‘s miCRo series, you can click here
To read Caitlin’s introduction to Miriam Bird Greenberg‘s poem “Invocation” for the CR‘s miCRo series, you can click here
To read Caitlin’s introduction to Stephen Kampa‘s poem “The Collectors” for the CR‘s miCRo series, you can click here
To read Caitlin’s introduction to a collaborative sonnet by Simone Muench and Jackie K. White for the CR‘s miCRo series, you can click here
To read Caitlin’s introduction to Jess Smith‘s poem “Path of Totality” for the CR‘s miCRo series, you can click here
To read Caitlin’s introduction to Faylita Hicks‘s poem “Girl 1994: Gawd” for the CR‘s miCRo series, you can click here
To read Caitlin’s introduction to Bruce Smith‘s flash fiction piece “The Slabs” for the CR‘s miCRo series, you can click here
To read Caitlin’s introduction to Nance Van Winckel‘s flash nonfiction pieces “My Husband’s Story from the War” and “Assisted Living” for the CR‘s miCRo series, you can click here
To read Caitlin’s introduction to Brian Ma‘s literary nonfiction piece “Shadows on the Korean Peninsula” for the CR‘s miCRo series, you can click here
To read Caitlin’s introduction to Alex Dimitrov‘s poem “The Sun” for the CR‘s miCRo series, you can click here
To read Caitlin’s introduction to Emilia Phillips‘s poem “‘You Should Write a Poem about That, They Say'” for the CR‘s miCRo series, you can click here
To read a piece by Caitlin on the CR‘s website about the journal’s newly expanded literary nonfiction section, you can click here
To learn more about the the CR‘s miCRo series, you can check out a video about it by clicking here