Colorado Review

Current Issue: Spring 2026

Colorado Review Spring 2026

Featuring

Mute Swan

By Apollo Chastain
The Art of Poetry

By John Gallaher
Rabid

By Keith Stahl
Devil’s Beggarticks

By Radha Marcum
The Masters

By Hee-June Choi
Queen of the Rodeo

By Mellissa Sojourner

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Civilians

Poetry

By Jehanne Dubrow

In the disturbance we call America, we must navigate the tension between job and home,...
The Museum of Unnatural Histories

Poetry

By Annie Wenstrup

The Museum of Unnatural Histories by Annie Wenstrup is a dazzling, disorienting, and reorienting engagement...
Asterism

Poetry

By Ae Hee Lee

In her debut poetry collection, Asterism, Ae Hee Lee writes, “The Napa cabbages inside are...
Spirography: A Memoir of Family, Loss, and Finding Home

Nonfiction

By Cara Stoddard

A spirograph is a tool that enables users to produce drawings of tight, interlocking spirals...

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Poetry

By Nicholas Gulig
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