Colorado Review

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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Book Reviews

New reading recommendations from Colorado Review

SOFAR

Poetry

By Elizabeth Bradfield

SOFAR is an acronym for the Sound Fixing and Ranging layers of ocean waters, where...
SISSY

Poetry

By Canese Jarboe

In the advanced blurbs for Canese Jarboe’s SISSY, renowned poet CA Conrad ended their blurb...
Civilians

Poetry

By Jehanne Dubrow

In the disturbance we call America, we must navigate the tension between job and home,...
The Museum of Unnatural Histories

Poetry

By Annie Wenstrup

The Museum of Unnatural Histories by Annie Wenstrup is a dazzling, disorienting, and reorienting engagement...

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Colorado Review Spring 2026

Literary Journal

By Stephanie G'Schwind, Editor
$12, $5 digital
Colorado Review Fall/Winter 2025

Literary Journal

By Stephanie G'Schwind, Editor
$12, $5 digital
Begin Where You Are: The Colorado Poets Laureate Anthology

Poetry

By Compiled by Turner Wyatt, edited by Mary Crow, Andrea Gibson, Joseph Hutchison, Bobby LeFebre, David Mason, and Julia Seldin
$45 hardcover, $19.95 paper, $16.95 digital

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Interviews & Recordings

A Conversation with Christine Larusso

Poet Christine Larusso and associate editor Natalia Sperry discuss poems featured in the 2025 Fall/Winter Colorado Review, climate justice,...

Feb 28, 2026
A Conversation with Mariah Rigg

Mariah Rigg discusses “The Impossible Real,” her story featured in the Fall/Winter 2025 issue of...

Feb 08, 2026
A Conversation with Heather Kirn Lanier

Heather Kirn Lanier discusses her essay “An Ounce of Light,” featured in the Fall/Winter 2025...

Jan 18, 2026

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