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Current Issue: Spring 2026

Colorado Review Spring 2026

Featuring

Mute Swan

By Apollo Chastain
The Art of Poetry

By John Gallaher
Rabid

By Keith Stahl
Devil’s Beggarticks

By Radha Marcum
The Masters

By Hee-June Choi
Queen of the Rodeo

By Mellissa Sojourner

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What this book cares about most: Death of the First Idea is a masterwork in...
Paper Crown

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By Heather Christle

By now, a new collection of Heather Christle poems comes with a certain set of...
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Poetry

By Andrea Werblin Reid

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