Colorado Review

Current Issue: Summer 2026

Colorado Review Summer 2026

Featuring

Pain Points

By David Rompf
Keepers

By Caylee Weintraub
a hubcap (gold)

By Trevor Ketner
A History of Looking

By Laura Grothaus
Other Lessons

By Lana Reeves
Por Siempre

By Jennifer Maritza McCauley

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Book Reviews

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Lola the Interpreter

Poetry

By Lyn Hejinian

What this book cares about most: Hejinian’s final collection is a rigorous, playful, and meandering...
The Company of Owls

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By Polly Atkin

When my kids were young, one of my favorite board books to read to them...
Alligator

Fiction

By David Ryan

It starts with a fridge and ends with spilled milk. David Ryan will turn the...
Kill Dick

Fiction

By Luke B. Goebel

“I can lie to you, but it would break the sacred bond of storytelling,” says...

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Literary Journal

By Stephanie G'Schwind, Editor
$12, $5 digital
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Literary Journal

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Begin Where You Are: The Colorado Poets Laureate Anthology

Poetry

By Compiled by Turner Wyatt, edited by Mary Crow, Andrea Gibson, Joseph Hutchison, Bobby LeFebre, David Mason, and Julia Seldin
$45 hardcover, $19.95 paper, $16.95 digital

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Interviews & Recordings

A Conversation with Aaron Kang Smithson

Associate editor Liz Ramirez talks to Aaron Kang Smithson about his essay, “Palimpsest,” featured in...

Jul 23, 2026
A Conversation with Alex Miller

Alex Miller discusses his story “We Who Sleep in the Dust of the Earth,” featured...

Jul 16, 2026
A Conversation with Daniel Kuo

Editorial assistant Christopher Lyders talks to author Daniel Kuo about his new story, “Empty Spaces,”...

Jul 09, 2026

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