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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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Reader, I

Poetry

By Corey Van Landingham

From the beginning, Corey Van Landingham leaves no question as to what big ideas her...
2008

Fiction

By Susan McCarty

What happens in this book? 2008: A Novel follows Stevie and Sam, former high school...
Death of the First Idea

Poetry

By Rickey Laurentiis

What this book cares about most: Death of the First Idea is a masterwork in...
Paper Crown

Poetry

By Heather Christle

By now, a new collection of Heather Christle poems comes with a certain set of...

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Literary Journal

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Literary Journal

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I Woke a Lake

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By Susan McCabe
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Interviews & Recordings

A Conversation with Darius Stewart

Associate Editor Bel Mercado talks with Darius Stewart about his memoir, Be Not Afraid of...

May 14, 2026
A Conversation with Maya Bernstein-Schalet

Maya Bernstein-Schalet discusses “Down and Out in Disneyland,” featured in the Summer 2025 issue of...

Apr 30, 2026
A Conversation with Keith Stahl

Editorial assistant Aliza Anderson-Diepenbrock discusses multigenre publication and more with Keith Stahl, whose essay “Rabid”...

Apr 09, 2026

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