Compiled by CL Young, Colorado Review Associate Editor This week, the Colorado Review and CSU poetry communities offer a list of some of the poems we return to when we need strength, reassurance, grounding, and reminders of beauty and empathy. Dan Beachy-Quick, Book Review Editor (poetry) & Associate Professor of Creative Writing: Gerard Manley […]
Join Colorado Review’s podcast editor Kylan Rice, associate editor Dana Chellman, and author Rose Whitmore as they read and discuss Rose’s essay “Witness,” featured in the Fall 2016 issue of the journal. Listen to the podcast here! (Episode 20)
Join Colorado Review’s podcast editor Kylan Rice, associate editor Lauren Matheny, and author Karin Cecile Davidson as they read and discuss Karin’s short story “Rock Salt and Rabbit,” featured in the Fall 2016 issue of the journal. Listen to the podcast here! (Episode 19)
By Morgan Riedl, Colorado Review Editorial Assistant Recently, I attended a storytelling event with a friend. After the performance, we discussed what it’s like to write and share stories, and agreed to send each other a story we’d written. Shortly after I got home, my phone buzzed with a text: “I’m so nervous for you […]
By Michelle LaCrosse, Colorado Review Editorial Assistant Have you ever wanted to tell a story about some far-off place that only exists in your imagination? Or struggled to describe something that’s in your head and yet just cannot seem to translate it to the page? Maybe you’re using the wrong word. Maybe the right word […]
Join Colorado Review’s podcast editor Kylan Rice and poet Mike Lala as they read and discuss a selection of poems from Exit Theater (2016), this year’s winner of the Colorado Prize for Poetry. Listen to the podcast here! (Episode 18)
By Sam Killmeyer, Colorado Review Associate Editor This summer I was lucky enough to work in some way on the three books of poems the Center for Literary Publishing will release this year: Exit Theater, &Luckier, and Escape Velocity. Up until this point I thought of bookmaking as something magical, attainable only by ‘real’ poets, […]
By Yash Seyedbagheri, Colorado Review Associate Editor When you envision stories being rejected at a literary journal, you might imagine a group of men and women in trench coats and fedoras, sitting around rejecting people with a certain glee, tossing manuscripts into the garbage can as they laugh jovially. And the fact is that isn’t true, […]
Join Colorado Review’s podcast editor Kylan Rice and poet Jenny Drai as they read and discuss Drai’s poems as found in the Summer 2016 edition of the journal. Listen to the podcast here! (Episode 17)
By Emily Ziffer, Colorado Review Associate Editor A few weeks ago I went rock climbing in Rocky Mountain National Park with two guys with whom I recently started training at the gym. I’ve been climbing competitively since middle school and because of this most of my life has been a series of balancing acts between academic […]
