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 […]
by Abigail Kerstetter, Colorado Review Associate Editor It’s always a strange thing, spending a weekend in devotion to writing, in the company of thousands of other writers, publishers, and general lovers of words at various stages of their careers, some well-seasoned in navigating what can quickly become a hall of mirrors, others just entering this […]
by Andrew Mangan, Associate Editor, Colorado Review A year ago, I was deluded. I’d persuaded myself to believe that I was a diverse reader, since my ten favorite authors then were a demographic scattershot: Lorrie Moore, Junot Díaz, ZZ Packer, Jhumpa Lahiri, Ben Marcus, Ottessa Moshfegh, Yiyun Li, Donald Antrim, Nam Le, Tobias Wolff (in […]
by Emily Harnden, Colorado Review Editorial Assistant The first short story I ever fell in love with, the kind of love that happens only once or twice when you are young and hopeful and vulnerable to getting your heart punctured, was, predictably, “How to Become a Writer,” by Lorrie Moore. That whip-smart opening—“First, try to […]
Join Colorado Review’s podcast editor Kylan Rice, staff member Cole Konopka, and poet Stephanie Lenox as they read and discuss Lenox’s book The Business, new release and Colorado Prize for Poetry winner from the Center for Literary Publishing. Listen to the podcast here! (Episode 14)
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 […]