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We are loving our newest authors for Issue #3!

kaseyboles — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 16:29:57 +0000

Maya Jewell Zeller’s first book, Rust Fish, is due out in April from Lost Horse Press. Individual poems have been published recently in Rattle, Camas, and Pank, and are forthcoming from The Spoon River Poetry Review and Mississippi Review. Maya lives in Spokane with her husband and daughter and teaches English at Gonzaga University. [...]

Write for Us

admin — Sun, 13 Mar 2011 05:56:58 +0000

We are looking for writers who, like us, love literature that doesn’t value, as Robert Stewart, the editor of New Letters, puts it: “cleverness, smugness, in-consequence.”

L’Avventura

admin — Sun, 13 Mar 2011 05:18:11 +0000

After a 1960 film that won the Cannes Film Festival Jury Prize, Erin Lyndal Martin crafts a poem that engages the reader even though they could be lost in abstract, emotion-rich language.

Cousins

admin — Sun, 13 Mar 2011 04:58:33 +0000

Maya Jewell Zeller has crafted a poem that fills the reader with a glimpse into a real moment that is living, crisp, and welling over with simplicity, perfection, and grit.

Meet the Authors from Issue 2

kaseyboles — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 16:01:35 +0000

We thought our first issue would be hard to beat. But, because of the great writing of the authors featured in our second issue we are once again excited about this issue and pleased to introduce them to you. If you haven't yet, make sure to check out Rachel's impressive style and Michael's ability to draw you in.

5 Reasons Why the New Creative Nonfiction Kicks Ass

admin — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 07:04:40 +0000

New from Crowd, we present the first of a series of custom designed, creatively written, reviews. At about the time we began conceptualizing Crowd's sophomore issue, Creative Nonfiction, the preeminent nonfiction magazine in the country, came out with a new design and new content. We were blown away.

The Consecration of the House, Hermitage

admin — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 06:46:05 +0000

Heffernan is comfortable letting his reader feel more detached in a poem experience but can quickly ground them again. As though a wave of light passing thought space, the reader, in repeat, rises to meet concrete detail in Heffernan's work, then descends to the abstract.

Trigger, Before I Left Oregon

admin — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 06:16:17 +0000

Don't be fooled by these poems. You might feel familiar ground in Rachel Mehl's verse, especially her narratives, but don't be surprised when her perfectly chosen details shake everything apart.

3 Books You’ll Have to Rip from My Cold, Dead Fingers

admin — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 20:13:12 +0000

A lot of people talk about the best books ever, but I'm often wishing that many of the authors I respect were represented on these lists a little better. So, I thought I'd put together a little a list of books that I'll always remember; and that you, when I die, will have to rip from my cold, dead fingers.

Editor as the New Artist?

admin — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 08:18:04 +0000

Today, I was reading the latest issue of Hayden's Ferry Review when I realized that it's very diverse collection of literary artifacts represents the large fragmentary nature of litery styles in contemporary writing. Their have always been a wide range of literary styles being published at any point in history, but I'm talking about a new ultra-fragmented group of styles, a net size never thrown before. The poems and prose selected by the editors at HFR exemplify this hyper-mode art.