Staging My Own MFA Reformation: Suggestions for Strengthening Our Program
Confession: I always wanted to take a poetry class, but felt that I was impeded by a gentleperson’s agreement of sorts, a sense that fiction and poetry had their own “turf.”
Colorado Review Podcast: September 2017 Episode
In Colorado Review’s September episode, Podcast Editor Lauren Matheny, Co-Nonfiction Editor Harrison Candelaria Fletcher, and Associate Editor Michelle LaCrosse discuss “Daughter Tongue,” an essay by Kathleen Blackburn featured in the Summer 2017 issue of the magazine. Listen to the podcast here: Episode 28.
10 Places for Daily Poetry
In order to keep this daily poetry need stress-free, I’ve been actively seeking out daily poetry emails and services. I thought that you too, in your daily stresses, joys, and attention to spring weather, might also want to enjoy this stress-free daily poetry, and so I’ve compiled a list of places to sign up for and read poems.
Vulnerability and the Submissions Process
What if I get rejected? What if a journal accepts a poem, and then five years down the road I am ashamed to see it out in the world?
In Defense of Odd
Not that being odd is currently under literary attack or anything, but I’ve been thinking about how certain pieces of writing are perfectly misshapen—a trapezoidal-peg-round-hole sort of thing—just enough to defy clear categorization.
Preach, Mama
I admitted, then, like a secret or a dare, “I’ve found myself writing preach, mama in the margins of the books I’m reading,” which has been the biggest puzzle to emerge out of many otherwise subtle changes.
Spoken Word: Not Just for Poetry
I went for this drive and listened to the entire seven episodes of S-Town, which comes from the producers of Serial and This American Life. I cried multiple times per episode, in the car, by myself.
Women in Art
Seeking out female writers isn’t something I’ve done consciously per se, rather the work I find so fascinating, the work I think is most exciting and brave and honest right now, happens to be by women and this feels important and true to me.
Colorado Review Podcast: March 2017 Episode
In Colorado Review’s March 2017 podcast, Kylan Rice passes the torch to incoming podcast editors Lauren Matheny and Meghan Pipe. Together, they’ll dive into the Colorado Review archives to read Barrington Smith-Seetachitt’s “Superman Falling” from the Fall/Winter 2008 issue. Afterward, Smith-Seetachitt will join in via Skype to chat about the story. Listen to the podcast here! […]
Area Poet Admits to Reading Fiction
By Colorado Review Associate Editor Zach Yanowitz I’m a poet. I’m in graduate school for poetry. As a result, that’s largely what I write and read. Sure, I’ve been obsessively keeping up with the news for the last few months and I read my fair share of comic books, but part of me sort of […]