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Current Issue: Summer 2026

Colorado Review Summer 2026

Featuring

Pain Points

By David Rompf
Keepers

By Caylee Weintraub
a hubcap (gold)

By Trevor Ketner
A History of Looking

By Laura Grothaus
Other Lessons

By Lana Reeves
Por Siempre

By Jennifer Maritza McCauley

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In Time

Poetry

By Ethel Rackin

In her mid-30s, Emily Dickinson stopped binding her poems into tidy, inked fascicles, and around...
Once When Green

Poetry

By Mark Irwin

I once stood spellbound watching a dog-rose petal falling through a bramble bush. Diverted in...
Wounded Boarders

Fiction

By George Singleton

George Singleton’s newest short story collection, Wounded Boarders, takes the mundane and presses on all...
The Return from Calvary

Poetry

By Mary Ann Samyn

“What if there isn’t any way to touch?” Mary Ann Samyn asks in The Return from...

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Dancing with Poets

Poetry

By Reed Turchi
$16.95 print, $13.95 ebook
Colorado Review Summer 2026

Literary Journal

By Stephanie G'Schwind, Editor
$12, $5 digital
Faithful Error

Poetry

By Sarah Louise Garrido
$16.95 print, $13.95 ebook

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Interviews & Recordings

A Conversation with Amit Majmudar

Amit Majmudar discusses his poetry in the Spring 2025 issue of Colorado Review with editorial...

Aug 20, 2026
A Conversation with Yvette DeChavez

Yvette DeChavez discusses “Two by Two,” her story featured in the Summer 2025 issue of...

Aug 06, 2026
A Conversation with David Rompf

Editorial Assistant Will Brooks talks with David Rompf about his essay, “Pain Points,” featured in...

Jul 30, 2026

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