Con(verse) Interview with C. L. Brenton: Talking motherhood and loss with assistant managing editor Lauren Furman Revised on 3/1/2023 An MFA graduate of Vermont College of Fine Arts, C. L. Brenton’s work bears witness to motherhood. Her stories have appeared or are forthcoming in Colorado Review, Witness magazine, and A3 Review. She is fond of cats, chocolate chips in just about […]
In Conversation with Julie Marie Wade By Linnea Harris Julie Marie Wade is a poet, lyric essayist, memoirist, and an experimental/hybrid forms writer. She is the author of twelve books of poetry and prose, including Wishbone: A Memoir in Fractures, winner of the Colgate University Press Nonfiction Book Award and the Lambda Literary Award […]
In Conversation with Emily Pérez By Karen Sherk Chio Poet Emily Pérez is the author of the collections What Flies Want (University of Iowa Press, May 2022), winner of the Iowa Prize, and House of Sugar, House of Stone (Center for Literary Publishing, 2016) as well as co-editor of The Long Devotion: Poets Writing […]
In Conversation with Adrian Lürssen By C Culbertson In this audio installment of Con(verse), CR‘s recurring interview series, C Culbertson sits down with Colorado Prize for Poetry winner Adrian Lürssen to discuss his book, Human Is to Wander. Lürssen reads a few poems from the collection and talks about his inspiration for the work, the […]
Staff Profile: Eliana Meyer By Patrick Carey Eliana Meyer is a third-year MFA candidate in fiction here at Colorado State University. Having started at the Center for Literary Publishing (CLP) two years ago, Eliana is also now an associate editor at Colorado Review. Born in Woodland, California, Eliana made her way to Fort Collins […]
In Conversation with Kelly Weber By C. E. Janecek Kelly Weber (she/they) is the author of We Are Changed to Deer at the Broken Place (forthcoming Tupelo Press, December 2022) and You Bury the Birds in My Pelvis, winner of the 2022 Omnidawn First/Second Book Prize (forthcoming October 2023). She is the reviews editor for Seneca Review. Their work […]
Celebrating James Longenbach Alec Witthohn Friday, July 29, the literary community lost James Longenbach, a dear critic, poet, and friend. He had been living with kidney cancer for the past six years. The poet passed away at sixty-two. After his diagnosis, Longenbach persevered, publishing two books of criticism: How Poems Get Made (Norton, 2018) […]
In our final episode of Colorado Review‘s podcast, host Lilia Shrayfer gets in touch with Ariel Katz, whose story “Disaster Management” was published in the Spring 2022 issue of Colorado Review. They discuss everything from craft to themes such as nostalgia and jealousy, and Katz reads a selection from the story.
An Interview with Joy Guo By Lauren Furman Just this year, New York–based writer and attorney Joy Guo has published work in the Masters Review‘s New Voices, the Bureau Dispatch, Jellyfish Review, Hobart, and Chestnut Review. She also reads for No Contact, “a digital publisher of short-form prose, poetry, and hybrid works.” Her flash […]
Five Queer Literary Magazines to Read This Summer Alec Witthohn Many LGBTQIA+ readers and writers, myself included, are familiar with the blanket diversity statements that appear on the “about” pages and submission guidelines of many mainstream literary journals across the country. It’s important, I think, for queer authors to be able to achieve a […]
