by John McDonough, Colorado Review, Associate Editor A confession: Despite being in the third year of my MFA program, an editor at two literary journals, and a teacher of creative writing, I’m not a good reader. That’s not to say I can’t do it—I can, of course (and probably know a slightly above-average number of words, in […]
by CL Young, Colorado Review Editorial Assistant Around the middle of last year, the age restriction on the Yale Younger Poets Prize was lifted, opening the competition (previously available only to poets under the age of 40) to emerging poets of any age. The Yale Prize has been around for nearly one-hundred years and has […]
Join Colorado Review’s podcast editor Kylan Rice, poetry editor Matthew Cooperman, and Denise Jarrott as they read and discuss poetry by Rae Armantrout, Karla Kelsey, and Katherine Painter from the Fall / Winter 2015 issue. Listen to the podcast here! (Episode 13)
by Meghan Pipe, Colorado Review Editorial Assistant Here at Colorado Review, we’re in that mid-winter liminal space between Nelligan Prizes, celebrating our 2015 winner while eagerly accepting submissions for 2016. 2015’s winner is Luke Dani Blue, whose “Bad Things That Happen to Girls” was selected by final judge Lauren Groff. Blue will visit Colorado State […]
Last year Colorado Review published a review of Jill Magi’s 2014 LABOR. In early 2016, Magi and the reviewer, Sean Pears, continued the conversation on the emerging role of the university in an era of neoliberal reform, the value of humanities instruction in the twenty-first century, and the possible terms of solidarity between and across […]
by Shoaib Alam, Colorado Review Associate Editor Literature is coming to the streets (again), and it’s disguised as coffee sleeves, fast food, and tanks. The Atlantic explores the guerilla-marketing techniques being deployed to promote reading worldwide in this article. The city of Grenoble, France, leads the pack with machines that vend stories according to reading time—one-minute, three-minutes […]
by Katie Naughton, Colorado Review Associate Editor It’s late January, which means that it is reading season at the Center for Literary Publishing for the editors and judges who will select one manuscript to be published as the winner of the Colorado Prize for Poetry and two manuscripts to be published in the Mountain West Poetry […]
Join Colorado Review’s podcast editor Kylan Rice, editor Stephanie G’Schwind, and Dean Sangalis as they read and discuss the short story “The Wisdom of Sons” by Thomas White from the Spring 2009 issue. Listen to the podcast here! (Episode 12)
by Chelsea Hansen, Colorado Review Editorial Assistant Every time I move I’m amazed by the amount of books I own; more than half of my boxes will be full of books. They recently graduated, after my last move, from orderly piles on the floor to a second bookshelf, which has room for approximately four more […]
by Dan Beachy-Quick, Colorado Review Poetry Reviews Editor When I first encountered Agnes Martin’s paintings, those grids too easily subsumed by the name Minimalism, I felt a mute appreciation. But over the years I’ve found myself, in every museum I visit, searching out her work, feeling not a mute appreciation on discovering one, but a […]
