5 Books by Women You Should Read This Year
Five contemporary women poets, however, have begun to explore alternatives to predominantly linear models of time and history.
Found in Translation
by Jennifer Wisner Kelly, Book Review Editor for Fiction and Nonfiction If you’re a frequent reader of Colorado Review’s online book reviews, you might have noticed a recent trend in our fiction and nonfiction selections. Interspersed among exciting new titles from American writers, there are recent books in translation from around the world, published here […]
Three Poetry Books You Should Read
A Recommendation from our Poetry Reviews Editor, Dan Beachy-Quick Most of us read more than one book at a time. It’s a habit that at its worst leaves each book with less than full attention, an error that leaves—at least for me—worthy pages unread. Other times, reading more than one book at once reveals an […]
Reading Voice: A Meditation on Poetry and Musical Lyrics
by Lincoln Greenhaw, Colorado Review Associate Editor Picture yourself in a busy coffee shop with a copper counter and a ceiling festooned with strings of large, old-fashioned lightbulbs. There is dark, atmospheric music playing. Now take a moment to look around the room and listen as the various conversations about marketing plans or Internet cats […]
Man in the Moon: Essays on Fathers & Fatherhood
By Stephanie G’Schwind, Editor The Center for Literary Publishing is perhaps best known for Colorado Review and the poetry books we publish for the Colorado Prize for Poetry and the Mountain West Poetry Series. But we have a new book out this month, something a little different—our first nonfiction anthology: Man in the Moon: Essays […]
The Poet’s Tithe
By Abby Kerstetter, Colorado Review Editorial Assistant Workers need poetry more than bread. They need that their life should be a poem. —Simone Weil “What are you looking for?” It’s the most frequently asked question, and it’s the hardest to answer. There are more opinions than poets, and more poems attempting to defend those opinions, […]
Death of the Short Story
By John McDonough, Colorado Review Editorial Assistant Let me come out and say it: the title of this essay is deceptive. I’m not here to construct a headstone, to bemoan the lack of popular interest in contemporary short fiction, or decry the work of my fellow writers as cliched or trite or regressive. No, I’m […]
The Novella Borderland
Call it what you want—novella, short novel, novelette—the literature of the border refuses to be pinned down.
Interview with Paul Hoover
by Melissa Hohl, Colorado Review Editorial Assistant What better way to celebrate National Poetry Month than to interview a dynamic poet? As Paul Hoover’s former student, I was excited to catch up with him and talk about everything from Tristan Tzara to Barry Wade of W.W. Norton & Company. Hoover’s poems, intelligence, and sense of […]
Interview with Danniel Schoonebeek
by Colorado Review Editorial Assistant Katie Naughton Danniel Schoonebeek is a friend, a former coworker, and one of my favorite poets. The first thing I knew about Colorado Review was the Summer 2012 issue, which included Danniel’s poem “Bildungsroman (Spare American)” and some of his Torch Songs in collaboration with Allyson Paty. I’m pleased to […]