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 […]
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.
