Join Colorado Review’s podcast editor Kylan Rice, editor Matthew Cooperman, and Melissa Hohl as they read and discuss “Going Back to Thira” by Rachel Mennies and “Five Years Later” by Brittany Cavallaro, two poems from the Fall 2015 issue. Listen to the podcast here! (Episode 11)
To love words, you have to treat them right, work within the grammar rules given.
Join Colorado Review’s podcast editor Kylan Rice, editor Steven Schwartz, and Meghan Pipe as they read and discuss “Bad Things That Happen to Girls,” a story by Luke Dani Blue from the Fall 2015 issue. Listen to the podcast here! (Episode 10)
The whole idea behind imaginative writing is to appropriate experiences other than your own. The important question is how you do it.
by Angela Mergentime, Colorado Review Associate Editor As a graduate student pursuing a master’s in English Literature, I have to shift my literary gears each time I read submissions for Colorado Review. I’ve lately been spending a lot of time reading historical and theoretical material for my master’s project—in addition to my ongoing habit of […]
Before I moved to Colorado, I considered leaving my television behind. I wanted to break my sense of continuity, throw a wrench in the cyclical nature of routine, and the TV was an obvious source of time-suck, a passive activity that conflicted with my creative pursuits, specifically writing.
Join Colorado Review’s podcast editor Kylan Rice, editor Stephanie G’Schwind, and Alex Morrison as they read and discuss “Namesake,” an essay by Mason Stokes from the Fall 2015 issue. Listen to the podcast here! (Episode 9)
To me, voice is an important element of docupoetics. Voice insists on the personal and the human within historical, political, cultural, and everyday documents and/or the documentation the past and the present.
Writing would be even more solitary a pursuit without the exposure to new voices and ideas that literary journals offer up to us. By supporting these places, you’re keeping our writing community a vibrant one.
The expression “overnight success story” is a misnomer, unless “overnight” is loosely defined as several years.
