Join us in congratulating Cimarron contributor Lisa M. Steinman. Steinman’s book of poems, Absence & Presence is now available from The University of Tampa Press.

Issue 184 has arrived just in time for the dog days of summer.  Readers will delight in poetry by Jim, Daniels, Clint Margrave, Rose McLarney, Nancy Aldrich, and many other talented writers, as well as fiction by Phillip Holland, L.E. Miller, and Gary Fincke and food essays by Adeena Reitberger and Matthew Gavin Frank. Gorgeous photos by April Dobbins grace our front and back covers.  Buy a copy or become a subscriber today.

Photographer David Mondedeu (Cimarron Review 182) has a new, limited edition book of photo etchings, Sonnets of 40 Winters and 40 Springs. 

Cimarron contributors continue to impress with new publications. Julie L. Moore (Cimarron Review #165) has a new book of poems, Particular Scandals, released in June from Cascade Books.

Join us as we congratulate Cimarron contributor Rachel Mennies, whose first book of poems, The Glad Hand of God Points Backwards, won the 2013 Walt McDonald First Book Prize in Poetry and will be published in Spring, 2014 from Texas Tech University Press.