Colorado Review

25/07/2024

Preorder 'The Other Altar,' the winner of the 2024 Colorado Prize for Poetry by Nicholas Gulig, at the link in our bio now! Use the code GULI24 to get 40% off 📚

22/07/2024

'Clamming' by Mickie Kennedy, from the Summer 2024 issue of Colorado Review, out now. Head to the link in our bio to purchase a copy or subscription.

20/07/2024

Our next feature is from the Editor-in-Chief of Colorado Review, Stephanie G'Schwind! Stephanie is also the director of the Center for Literary Publishing and a nonfiction editor.

What have you read lately that you’d recommend?

Ann Patchett’s Tom Lake. The minute I read the last word, I immediately started rereading it. I’m a bit of a memoir ju**ie, and I thought Sarah Perry’s After the Eclipse was astounding. I also loved Tracy K. Smith’s Ordinary Light, Natasha Tretheway’s Memorial Drive, and Erika Krouse’s Tell Me Everything.

What’s your favorite part of being a Colorado Review editor?

The relationships that come from being part of a new writer’s journey and mentoring graduate students as they explore career possibilities.

What are you looking forward to this summer?

Gelato. Wearing sandals. Kayaking with our friends. Long days of Colorado sun.

18/07/2024

Colorado Review Summer 2024 is out now! Head to the link in our bio to purchase your own issue or subscription. Stay tuned for more poem features and teasers 💫

15/07/2024

✏️ AUTHOR INTERVIEW ✏️

Bruce Beasley talks walking as writing, prayer as evoking, and artistic doppelgangers with associate editor Laurel Roth. See this interview and more at the link in our bio.

13/07/2024

Our next editor feature is from book review editor Nicole VanderLinden! See below for our Q&A:

What have you read lately that you’d recommend?

I just finished Tommy Orange’s Wandering Stars and absolutely loved it. (If you’d rather use a small press book, I’m a big fan of Janice Obuchowki’s stories and would recommend her collection The Woods.)

What’s your favorite part of being a Colorado Review editor?

My favorite part of being a CR editor is the opportunity to champion all the hard work and creativity that goes into small/university presses, from creating beautiful books to amplifying under-heard voices to simply sending beautiful stories into the world. I also love working with our reviewers, who exude passion for reading and are the best kind of literary citizens.

What are you looking forward to this summer?

I’m taking my stepdaughter to see the Eras Tour in London at the end of June! CANNOT WAIT.

07/07/2024

Brent Ameneyro's tour dates and readings for the newest title in our Mountain/West poetry series, A Face Out of Clay 📚

06/07/2024

Here's a sneak peek at the cover of our summer issue, arriving Mid-July! Head to the link in our bio to purchase a subscription & subscribe to our newsletter for further updates ☀️

28/06/2024

✏️ AUTHOR INTERVIEW ✏️

Lesley Jenike talks museums, musicality, and marionettes with associate editor Julia Marquez-Uppman. Visit our blog to read this interview & many more--link in bio 🎶

22/06/2024

Our next Editor Feature with poetry editor Camille Dungy is here! 🎉 See what Camille has been reading & her summer plans below:

What have you read lately that you’d recommend?

I've spent the last month reading poets from some of the regions around the world that I hear about (or hear too little about) in the news. So I've been reading poets from Palestine, Sudan and South Sudan, The Democratic Republic of Congo and other places. Some poets (and books) I've come to admire include: Mosab Abu Toha, (Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear), K. Eltinae, (The Moral Judgment of Butterflies), Sarah Lubala, Hind Joudeh.

What’s your favorite part of being a Colorado Review editor?

I have made a practice of choosing poems from the queue rather than seeking/inviting submissions, so I love the opportunity to come to know a lot of new writers and their work.

What are you looking forward to this summer?

For the first time in several years, I don't have much planned for the summer. I want to see where the days lead me. That feels like a heavenly prospect.

15/06/2024

✏️AUTHOR INTERVIEW✏️

Mary Grimm talks mother-daughter relationships, ghost stories, and flash fiction with managing editor Lauren Furman. Visit the link in our bio to read the full interview 📚

07/06/2024

Harrison Candelaria-Fletcher, one of our nonfiction editors, will be kicking off our summer editor features! ☀️⛱️ We asked all of our editors a few questions about what they've been up to and what they're looking forward to this season.

What have you read lately that you’d recommend?

The Lyric Essay as Resistance: Truth from the Margins, edited by Erica Trabold and Aisha Sabatini Sloan, and Shapes of Native Nonfiction edited by Elissa Washuta and Theresa Warburton. I think the titles say it all.

What’s your favorite part of being a Colorado Review editor?

Seeing where writers of all backgrounds and experiences are taking the art of creative nonfiction. I’m constantly inspired – and challenged – by the work we receive. It’s also a joy getting into the writing weeds with Stephanie and the rest of the staff on a good essay, memoir or hybrid form.

What are you looking forward to this summer?

Spending quality time with two new book projects during a summer-long writing residency at the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation in Taos, New Mexico. So grateful for this gift. I’m also taking my guitar and amp and honing covers of The Cramps.

07/06/2024

Joyce Mansour In a past Summer issue of CR 🌙

02/06/2024

Tectonics from A Face Out of Clay by Brent Ameneyro. Head to the link in the bio to order your copy now. ✨

30/05/2024

✏️AUTHOR INTERVIEW✏️

2023 Colorado Prize for Poetry winner Gale Marie Thompson talks trees, Taylor Swift, and lyrical phenology with associate editor Tashiana Seebeck.

24/05/2024

Head to the link in our bio for submission guidelines & our submittable link 📚

23/05/2024

The next title in the Mountain / West Poetry Series, A Face Out of Clay, by Brent Ameneyro, is now available for preorder! You can purchase a copy at the link in our bio. The official publication date is June 1st!

The Mountain / West Poetry Series is made possible in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.

20/05/2024

✏️AUTHOR INTERVIEW✏️
Lisa Ampleman talks drafting poems by hand, what it means to be an editor who writes, and staying curious with editorial assistant Erin Peters.

07/05/2024

✏️AUTHOR INTERVIEW✏️
K. S. Dyal talks Buffalo, NY, multiple points of view, and writing about love with editorial assistant Carolyn Silverstein.

K. S. Dyal is the author of the novella It Felt Like Everything (Ad Hoc Fiction 2022) and work in or coming from Colorado Review, Carve Magazine, Quarterly West, CutBank, HAD, and elsewhere. She writes from Washington, D.C. Find her online and ksdyal.wordpress.com.

K. S. Dyal talks Buffalo, NY, multiple points of view, and writing about love with editorial assistant Carolyn Silverstein. K. S. Dyal is the author of the novella It Felt Like Everything (Ad Hoc Fiction 2022) and work in or coming from Colorado Review, Carve Magazine, Quarterly West, CutBank, HAD,....

30/04/2024

CLP poetry proofreading essentials:
✔️piping hot tea
✔️neon sticky notes
✔️The Chicago Manual of Style
Summer 2024 Issue of CR coming soon!

30/04/2024

“I wrote the book the year after my MFA, when no one was looking, very much in my own world when writing. Suddenly, because no one was looking, I felt free to write poems I didn't know how to write; it was the first time I felt that kind of excitement. I'm always grateful for my friends' help and feedback on my work, but I also recommend periods of seclusion when you can remind yourself how to be weird—amidst all the responsibilities and notifications, it's easy to forget.”—Craig Teicher about Brenda Is in the Room, winner of the 2007 Colorado Prize for Poetry

Purchase Brenda Is in the Room here: https://coloradoreview.colostate.edu/books/brenda-is-in-the-room-and-other-poems/

29/04/2024

Lately, I have been thinking about the chorus—choral odes and hymns, threnodies. Not the collective speaking as a singular unit, but separate voices weaving layered, complex experiences. In February, I read from Night Burial in my hometown (thank you ). My family was there, with friends and former teachers and neighbors. What I heard in that reading was not the lyric I but the communal we. Multiple voices of longing and laughter, embodied and spectral, colliding and coinciding. I understood then how palpably our encounters with literary texts (those we read and those we write) change over time and space. I dedicated Night Burial to my mother. I would add to the dedication—with my dad and brothers and aunt and cousins and grandmothers and husband and children and friends and poets past and present—for what I hear now in the book are choral voices, community.—Kate Bolton Bonnici about Night Burial, winner of the 2020 Colorado Prize for Poetry

Purchase Night Burial here: https://coloradoreview.colostate.edu/books/night-burial/

23/04/2024

🪁As National Poetry Month draws to a close we’re highlighting some of our past poets and their collections starting with Lauren Haldeman’s 2017 Colorado Prize for Poetry winner Instead of Dying.
🪁“I love structure and Instead of Dying is all about structure. I had the thought while visiting my family after Ryan died that he’d be a great ferry boat captain. We were taking a ferry across the Potomac and I just sort of pictured his alternate life. That inspired one Instead of Dying poem and I thought, why stop at one alternate life? They became a pattern. And when I noticed the “mirror poems” starting to form in another section, I followed that too. I followed the forms where they led me, and it was a great trip.”—Lauren Haldeman

18/04/2024

✏️AUTHOR INTERVIEW✏️
Surya Milner talks the importance of questioning oneself, weaving research with experience, and writing about place with associate editor Anna Emerson.

Surya Milner talks the importance of questioning oneself, weaving research with experience, and writing about place with associate editor Anna Emerson. Surya Milner is an MFA candidate in creative nonfiction at Northwestern University’s Litowitz Program. Her work has been published in Majuscule, t...

17/04/2024

We are very pleased to announce that Nicholas Gulig’s The Other Altar has been selected by Brenda Shaughnessy as the winner of the 2024 Colorado Prize for Poetry! 🎉 Be on the lookout for this exciting title coming November 2024!

Nicholas Gulig is a Thai-American poet from Eau Claire and is the current Wisconsin Poet Laureate. The author of North of Order (YesYes Books) and Orient (CSU Poetry Center), he currently works as an Associate Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater and lives in Fort Atkinson with his wife and two daughters.

11/04/2024

✏️AUTHOR INTERVIEW✏️
Analía Villagra talks eccentric female protagonists, crowded apartment buildings, and the power of punctuation with editorial assistant Maia Coen.

Analía Villagra talks eccentric female protagonists, crowded apartment buildings, and the power of punctuation in fiction with editorial assistant Maia Coen. Analía Villagra’s work appears in Colorado Review, Ecotone, Ploughshares, The Iowa Review, and elsewhere. She is a National Endowment of t...

05/04/2024

Last night we had the joy of hearing Gale Marie Thompson read from Mountain Amnesia, winner of the 2023 Colorado Prize for Poetry! There were chills, chuckles, and cheek-stretching smiles all evening.