In our November episode, the CR Podcast sits down with the winner of Crazyhorse‘s 2018 Crazyshorts! Short Fiction Contest, Aliceanna Stopher. Listen to the podcast here: Episode 40. Become a subscriber to the Colorado Review podcast! Just search “Colorado Review” in the iTunes store or follow this link.
But what happens when a beloved book becomes a movie? Honestly, my first thought is “oh no.” Why? Because so often the movie lets me down, ruins my imagined world, and refuses to bring to life the best parts of the book.
By Colorado Review Associate Editor and Podcast Editor Evan Senie The most tiring, frustrating, and wonderful part of my experience at the Center for Literary Publishing this semester has been taking over podcast-hosting duties with Daniel Schonning. We try to produce one podcast episode per month, which seems like it should be easy, and I […]
Obsession, we’re told, is unhealthy at worst, embarrassing at best. To write about one’s obsessions, to air them publicly, is particularly tacky—or so we seem to believe.
Using trial transcripts, witness testimonies, interviews, medical descriptions, and more, Rukeyser documents a nonlinear account of the industrial disaster through voices both real and imagined. Throughout, she never loses sight of the potential problematics of documentary poetry (voyeurism, appropriation, etc.) and this inquiry into her own method is an integral part of the poem.
One of the things I’ve come to understand about artistic pursuits, or at least about mine, is that they are anything but linear. Sometimes one needs to push the limits only to retrace origins and vice versa. So it is that I began exploring seemingly oppositional forces at play in art in general, and subsequently, in written mediums.
On the faces of my students when I suggest they submit their work for publication: flattery, confusion. And I get it—no one taught me how to submit, how to find journals I admire, how to know when a piece is ready. The prospect can be daunting when you’re starting out.
As the writer holding power, women might offer alternative representations of women within the actual content or use their power to communicate their powerlessness.
After more than twenty years of being headquartered in Aylesworth Hall, the Center for Literary Publishing has moved across the Colorado State University campus and into the Tiley House,
In our August episode, podcast editors Evan Senie and Daniel Schonning take a look at poems and stories of past editions of the Colorado Review, including selections from E. E. Cummings, Langston Hughes, Ray Bradbury, Aimee Bender, and others. Listen to the podcast here: Episode 39. Become a subscriber to the Colorado Review podcast! Just search “Colorado Review” […]
