by Cedar Brant, Colorado Review editorial assistant The most shocking thing happens when your work is published: people read it. Although this is, of course, the basic idea, it is nonetheless miraculous. Publication is the crucible that transforms the private tomes of one’s journal into, in the spirit of John Keats, “a handshake,” an act […]
Episode 6 Kylan Rice, Steven Schwartz and Sarah Hansen read and discuss short story “Midterm” by Leslie Johnson.
By Melissa Hohl, Colorado Review Associate Editor “It’s like Vegas in here. There are no clocks and it could be any time of day or night outside and we would have no idea” –John Gallaher on the AWP book fair I spent most of the daytime during AWP at the book fair, either walking around […]
By Bryan C. Johnson, Colorado Review Associate Editor As I approach the end of my MFA experience, I’ve been thinking more and more about what my writing life will look like post-degree. For the past three years, I’ve had a decent amount of free time (I’m not an adjunct, or I would have no free […]
By Shoaib Alam, Colorado Review Associate Editor Literary awards are all over the news recently. Here at Colorado Review, submissions closed not too long ago for the 2015 Nelligan Prize for Short Fiction. The winner will be announced in July. The final judge is Lauren Groff. Meanwhile, Akhil Sharma won the second Folio prize for […]
Episode 5 Kylan Rice, Matthew Cooperman, and Drew Webster read and discuss poetry by Pam Rehm.
By Andrew Mangan, Colorado Review Associate Editor We are living in a post-Serial world in which podcasting has broken into the mainstream and proven itself to be a serious form of media. And having recently revamped our podcast here at Colorado Review, I wanted to put together a list of a few other blue-chip podcasts […]
By Nathaniel Barron, Colorado Review Editorial Assistant I recently received a book to review for the Center for Literary Publishing. I was excited; the author had impressive publications and credentials, and the blurb on the back cover was from a recent Pulitzer Prize–winning author (who shall henceforth be referred to as PPWA). According to PPWA, […]
A certain approach to poetry marvels the mundane. It takes those daily chores that seem to threaten a meaningful life and inverts the equation, so that doing the chores becomes its own sacred mediation.
by Marie Turner, Colorado Review Editorial Assistant I’ve been thinking lately about the issue of taste. I think it’s been on my mind because of recent instances in both my professional and student lives that have made me think about how when we publish (or attempt to publish) something, there are an extraordinary number of […]