Heather Hamilton: I’m currently rereading Paula Bohince’s Incident at the Edge of Bayonet Woods, a poetry collection that doubles as a murder mystery, though to file it under any one term would be reductive. In fact, Incident is a complex and breathtaking book, pulling double duty on multiple fronts: at once rooted in a specific terror and speaking …
While we always receive a lot of varied, high-quality work here at CR, we do, on occasion, notice trends in our submissions. Here are two of the latest. Elaborate presentation: Recently we’ve received a number of spiral-bound submissions. We’ve received submissions on watermarked, stationery-grade stock, on parchment, and on glossy paper with accompanying photographs. We’ve also received quite a few in …
On a particularly frigid Wednesday of last month, volunteer Brandon Whiting appeared for his office hours in nothing but an elaborate feather jumpsuit. This was not unusual in itself—feather suits are actually required office wear—so we didn’t think much of it. And when he began touting the benefits of an “all-marsh” diet, we figured he …
McMicken Hall! Our snug office is in the cupola. (We also report on the weather and traffic patterns for Channel 9.)
Welcome to the CR blog’s new series, What We’re Reading. Since our staff is composed of such wonderfully erudite—yes, we said erudite—individuals, we decided to create a feature where members of our small yet mighty work force jot a few lines about what they they’re currently reading as a kind of “employees’ picks” of the …
This just in from our poetry editor Don Bogen, who is on a Fulbright in Belfast. We miss you, Don! Don Bogen: I’ve been getting a handle on the local accent. According to a linguist in the department here at Queen’s, the story goes that a wild black pig stuck its snout into the earth …
To everyone who played our game of the month: Thanks for the rejection! (We never thought we’d say that). Your fake rejections made at least four editors laugh coffee out of their noses, and for that reason alone we accept you all. However, we are literary magazine editors, with all the dragon scales, icy hearts, …
Great news: Contributor Chase Twichell, whose poem “Raw Umber” appears in issue 6.2, has won the 2011 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. This prestigious accolade, which comes with a $100,000 purse, is awarded each year to an outstanding mid-career poet. Congratulations, Chase! To read “Raw Umber,” check out Dave Nielsen’s “Why We Like It” blog post …
When not in the office, Assistant Editor Matt McBride retreats to the caves of nearby Kentucky, where he renounces the material world and lives on a strict diet of hickory nuts and wild honey. We don’t talk about it much, except to point out when he’s meditating aloud or has twigs stuck in his hair. …
REJECT REJECTION! Attribute it to post-AWP punchiness, but for this month’s contest, we’re going to try something a little risky. At the mag, we’re all writers too, which is to say we’ve all been rejected, numerous times, which is to say we know well the lowering moment of finding a form response in the mailbox’s …
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