Some Essential Skills for Leaving the MFA
May, 07 2018 | one response
By Colorado Review Associate Editor David Mucklow The end of the MFA is an inevitably strange experience, full of sort of empty landmarks of finality: turning in your thesis, defending your thesis, writing your last paper, grading your last paper, attending your last class, having your thesis formally accepted by the graduate school (a task […]
How to Create a Purposeful Reading List
Dec, 22 2017 | no responses
“Part of the beauty of literature is its great diversity, its weirdness, its ability to examine the human condition in new and authentic ways.”
Oct, 24 2017 | no responses
This thing that we do carries an energy that is crucial to our being able to wake up and rediscover the world around us again and again and again.
Vulnerability and the Submissions Process
Apr, 28 2017 | no responses
What if I get rejected? What if a journal accepts a poem, and then five years down the road I am ashamed to see it out in the world?
A Reflection on Listening: Thanks to Mike Lala and Rachel Hall
Mar, 03 2017 | no responses
By Colorado Review Editorial Assistant Kristin Macintyre A few days ago I, along with the literary community at Colorado State University, had the honor of listening to two writers read their work at the Gregory Allicar Museum of Art on campus. Rachel Hall, a visiting fiction writer from SUNY-Geneseo, read a beautiful short story from […]
Feb, 10 2017 | no responses
by Colorado Review Editorial Assistant Christa Shively I am sitting on my couch, in my living room, in a place that I have staked, flagged, and signed on the dotted line for. My neighborhood is made up of parcels of earth, homogenized snippets of ground, dovetail lots containing homes, yards, and mailboxes. Each driveway has identical […]