Read to Me: The Journey of Creating Accessible PDF Documents
Like listening to a parent read to me when I was a child, I found that this experience of listening gave me new access to the words.
March 2018 Podcast: Spring 2018 Fiction Chat with Steven Schwartz
In our March episode, fiction editor Steven Schwartz joins podcast editor Meghan Pipe to chat about the four stories in Colorado Review’s Spring 2018 issue—Caitlin Fitzpatrick’s “The Laws of Motion,” Timothy Hedges’s “Category Five,” Hester Kaplan’s “Daylight Saving,” and Jaeden Langlois’s “An Offering to the Mother Goddess Danu.” Listen to the podcast here: Episode 34. […]
Brief Thoughts on the Art and Craft of the Poetry Review
“See? Here is what I found” might be the sentence of the good critic. “See? Here is what found me” might be the sentence of the great one.
On Romance (and Sex) in Fiction
In my weaker, less feminist moments, I worry writing about relationships will come off as “girly,” as if girl-like behavior is both easily defined and something to be avoided at all costs.
In Support of Strangeness: A Perspective Toolkit for AWP
You, by yourself, writing. You, alone, making that thing. That’s poetry. And when you die, that goes away. AWP goes on. But when you die there will never be another Fran poem or Cate poem or Michael poem. Don’t forget that.
A Literary Podcast Listicle
I listened to Olds’s conversation in the airport and she told me to remember to love myself, to kiss my wrist. I did, right there at the gate, and it was lovely.
February 2018 Podcast: Poet Lauren Haldeman, author of Instead of Dying
In February’s episode, associate editors Sam Killmeyer and Zach Yanowitz chat with Lauren Haldeman, author of Instead of Dying, winner of the 2017 Colorado Prize for Poetry. Listen to the podcast here: Episode 33. Become a subscriber to the Colorado Review podcast! Just search “Colorado Review” in the iTunes store or follow this link.
Lessons in Sincerity and Softness with W. S. Merwin
I found that openness of form, softness of sound and image, and sincerity in tone suggest new ways I might approach poems as a writer and reader, and too, how I might more gently and generously approach my daily interactions with those around me.
Novels, Short Stories, and Me
I will always marvel at all you short story writers out there, who make me feel intense emotions in such a small amount of space and time. There’s a special magic in them that has taught me lessons about novel writing before I’ve even had a chance to realize I was learning them.
January 2018 Podcast: Katie M. Flynn’s “Island Rule,” 2017 Winner of the Nelligan Prize
In January’s episode, podcast editor Lauren Matheny reads Katie M. Flynn’s “Island Rule,” winner of the 2017 Nelligan Prize for Short Fiction, from the Fall/Winter 2017 issue. Listen to the podcast here: Episode 32. Become a subscriber to the Colorado Review podcast! Just search “Colorado Review” in the iTunes store or follow this link.