Colorado Review Podcast

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Monthly readings and discussions of poetry and prose published in Colorado Review.

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Into the Archives: A National Poetry Month Digital Reading

Into the Archives A National Poetry Month Digital Reading Listen in as we move through decades of poetry at Colorado Review in celebration of National Poetry Month! This June, social media manager and associate editor Alec Witthohn, delved into Colorado Review ‘s archives to bring you eight exceptional poets from across the magazine’s history. Interns and editors here at Colorado Review helped to select and read some our favorite poems while Alec provides historical and aesthetic background on e...

Apr 25, 2023•19 min

Con(verse): In Conversation with Adrian Lürssen

In Conversation with Adrian Lürssen By C Culbertson In this audio installment of Con(verse), CR ‘s recurring interview series, C Culbertson sits down with Colorado Prize for Poetry winner Adrian Lürssen to discuss his book, Human Is to Wander . Lürssen reads a few poems from the collection and talks about his inspiration for the work, the biography and personal history of the poems, and how he revisits these poems now—as a reader rather than a writer. C Culbertson is a third year MFA candidate i...

Nov 19, 2022•45 min

May 2022 Podcast Part Two: In Conversation with Kylan Rice

In part two of Colorado Review’ s May podcast, podcast host Lilia Shrayfer sits down with Colorado State University alum and former Colorado Review podcast editor Kylan Rice. Together, they talk about their experiences at AWP, writing and professionalization, and life after the MFA.

May 26, 2022•19 min

October 2021 Podcast: In Conversation with Danny Thiemann

In this episode of the Colorado Review Podcast, host Lilia Shrayfer sits down with Danny Thiemann to discuss his story “One Bad Night in San José, Costa Rica,” forthcoming in the Colorado Review ‘s Fall/Winter 2021 issue. This story was awarded the 2021 Nelligan Prize for Short Fiction by final judge T. Geronimo Johnson. Thiemann is also the recipient of the 2020 Tobias Wolff Prize for Fiction from the Bellingham Review , an Award for New Writers from New York City’s Table4 Foundation, and a Mad...

Oct 15, 2021•43 min•Ep. 63

September 2021 Podcast: In Conversation with Sarah Curtis

Please join Colorado Review associate editor Nicole Piasecki and writer Sarah Curtis for a discussion about Curtis’s recently published essay “The Ghosts of Lubbock,” published in CR ‘s Summer 2021 issue.

Sep 16, 2021•43 min

August 2021 Podcast: In Conversation with Michelle Ross and Kim Magowan

This month’s episode kicks off the start of fall with not one, but two authors! Podcast host Lilia Shrayfer sits down with Michelle Ross and Kim Magowan to talk about their latest co-written short story, “Twenty-Three Safety Manuals.” This episode features conversation on the craft of collaborative story-telling, writing women inside and outside of gender roles of their time, and the relationship between what the writer intends and the reader imagines on the page.

Aug 30, 2021•45 min

July 2021 Podcast: In Conversation with Iris Jamahl Dunkle

This month’s episode brings into conversation author Iris Jamahl Dunkle and CLP associate editor and graduate student intern Annmarie Delfino. The two discuss Dunkle’s recently published book, West : Fire : Archive, from CLP’s Mountain/West Poetry Series, as well as how writing about the environment bridges the historical and the personal to recover landscapes and people thought to have been erased.

Jul 16, 2021•45 min

May 2021 Podcast: In Conversation with Brandon Krieg

In Conversation With Brandon Krieg Podcast host C Culbertson sits down with Brandon Krieg to talk about ecopoetics, environmental thought, and how the practice of walking calls on us to notice the world around us. Krieg reads the poems “In Case of Loss” and “Havening,” from his book Magnifier , winner of the 2019 Colorado Prize for Poetry. Krieg’s other books include: In the Gorge (2017, Codhill Press), Invasives (2014, New Rivers Press), and Source to Mouth , a chapbook published by New Michiga...

Jun 07, 2021•50 min

April 2021 Podcast: In Conversation with Kate Bolton Bonnici

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 who are young in their writing life, the poem as object and offering, writing through grief, and the work of feminist critic and scholar Julia ...

Apr 01, 2021

November 2020 Podcast: Fall/Winter 2020 Feature

Podcast editor Daniel Schonning gives a glimpse of Josie Sigler Sibara’s “The German Woman,” selected by Lori Ostlund as winner of the 2020 Nelligan Prize for Short Fiction, featured in the Fall/Winter 2020 issue of Colorado Review. Listen here !

Dec 01, 2020

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