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 […]
By Alex Morrison, Colorado Review Associate Editor It is no secret that graduate students spend a majority of their time reading, rarely for fun, and often more than a book a week. We all develop different strategies to cope with an ever-increasing workload, whether by learning to read on the go, the art of skimming, or […]
Recent years have seen an increasing interest in erasure poetry, in which a poet creates a new text by selectively erasing from another author’s pre-existing text. Poets Kristina Marie Darling and Sam Taylor are both practitioners of “self-erasure,” in which they first write their own text and then erase part of it. Taylor and Darling both developed […]
Join Colorado Review’s podcast editor Kylan Rice and poet Emily Pérez, author of House of Sugar, House of Stone, selected for the Mountain West Poetry Series in 2016, out from the Center for Literary Publishing. Listen to the podcast here! (Episode 16)
by Zach Yanowitz, Colorado Review Editorial Assistant As the school year winds down I’ve been thinking about how to spend my summer Free Time, a concept that my life seems to have forgotten since beginning my MFA in August. I have decided that Summer 2016 is going to be the Summer of Consumption. I should […]
By David Mucklow, Colorado Review Editorial Assistant Since starting my MFA and working at the Center for Literary Publishing, I’ve discovered a lot of new books of poetry. That has been probably one of the most exciting and helpful experiences as I start to work on my own full-length manuscript of poetry. With so much […]
Join Colorado Review’s podcast editor Kylan Rice and poet Bonnie Arning at AWP Los Angeles as they read and discuss Arning’s poem “Black Acres,” which can be found in the Spring 2016 edition of the journal. Listen to the podcast here! (Episode 15)
by Cory Cotten-Potter, Colorado Review Editorial Assistant Here’s the thing: I still think of writing as physical, the written word being just that, written. Reading words on the page and creating meaning is a strange act, an attempt to connect to places and people I’ll never see, people and places that I, as the reader, […]
by Melissa Hohl, Colorado Review, Associate Editor Samuel Beckett said that, not me. (The Unnamable is a weird and wonderful work of art, as is the whole of Beckett’s trilogy.) What’s on my mind right now: • This is my final blog post for Colorado Review (!!!) before I graduate. • I turn in my thesis to my committee […]
by Cole Konopka, Colorado Review Editorial Assistant In one of the many warnings I received as an undergraduate writer, a poet and teacher once broke down the hourly wage of writing (and editing) a poem for eventual publication. The $50 payment spread itself over many hours, until minimum wage seemed idealistic to hope for. Somehow […]
