Poet Hoa Nguyen and editorial assistant Conrad Schaefer discuss Nguyen’s poems featured in the Summer 2025 issue of Colorado Review. Their conversation covered poetic process, emplacement, as well as Nguyen’s divinatory/visionary poetics. They also discussed Nguyen’s archival research; the pairing of lineage and diasporic experience in her lyric poetry. Born in the lower Mekong Delta and raised […]
Associate editor Alaina Villoria discusses “The Little Spragger,” featured in the Fall/Winter 2025 issue of Colorado Review, with author Amanda DeMatto. Amanda DeMatto’s fiction has appeared in The Cincinnati Review and is forthcoming in Boulevard. She received an MFA in creative writing from Brooklyn College. She divides her time between New York City and New […]
Angela Tharpe talks surreal encounters, creating space with punctuation and pronouns, her poems in the Summer 2026 issue of Colorado Review, and culture recommendations galore with associate editor Kyle Mayl. Angela Tharpe is a writer and teacher living in Atlanta, Georgia. She received her BA in English from Baylor University, her MFA in creative writing […]
Molly Rogers writes on the history and theory of photography. She is the author of Delia’s Tears (Yale, 2010) and co-editor of To Make Their Own Way in the World (Aperture, 2020). She is associate director of the NYU Center for the Humanities and lives in Queens, New York. On February 17, 2021, Colorado Review […]
We are back just in time for National Poetry Month! New podcast hosts C Culbertson (they/them) and Lilia Shrayfer (she/her) sit down with Kate Bolton Bonnici, whose debut collection of poems Night Burial won the 2020 Colorado Prize for Poetry. This inaugural episode features talks about what the lineage of classical poetry and scholarship can teach folks […]