On Poets New to Poetry
In poetry, the ideas that exceed us are like yeast in dough—gritty bits that irritate, germinate, and give the product its full flesh.
Brief Thoughts on the Art and Craft of the Poetry Review
“See? Here is what I found” might be the sentence of the good critic. “See? Here is what found me” might be the sentence of the great one.
Small Miracles
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
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?
In Defense of Odd
Not that being odd is currently under literary attack or anything, but I’ve been thinking about how certain pieces of writing are perfectly misshapen—a trapezoidal-peg-round-hole sort of thing—just enough to defy clear categorization.
Preach, Mama
I admitted, then, like a secret or a dare, “I’ve found myself writing preach, mama in the margins of the books I’m reading,” which has been the biggest puzzle to emerge out of many otherwise subtle changes.
Spoken Word: Not Just for Poetry
I went for this drive and listened to the entire seven episodes of S-Town, which comes from the producers of Serial and This American Life. I cried multiple times per episode, in the car, by myself.
Area Poet Admits to Reading Fiction
By Colorado Review Associate Editor Zach Yanowitz I’m a poet. I’m in graduate school for poetry. As a result, that’s largely what I write and read. Sure, I’ve been obsessively keeping up with the news for the last few months and I read my fair share of comic books, but part of me sort of […]
Aesthetics and Worth in Writing
By Colorado Review Associate Editor Cory Cotten-Potter Anyone who’s ever been a member of a workshop, writing group, or any impromptu conversation among readers and writers knows that we all have a different aesthetic. And that, as a whole, they’re reasonably hard to describe. Ideally an aesthetic would indicate some sort of definable set, a […]
Navigating Twitter as a Writer
By Colorado Review Associate Editor Beth Stoneburner On any given afternoon, when not in class or working on school-related things, you will typically find me at home with a cat or two and several social media tabs open on my laptop: Facebook, WordPress, and Twitter. It’s the last one, however, that’s been most beneficial to […]