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Managing Editor Lisa Ampleman says goodbye as she moves to a new job.

Summer Assistant Editor Arah Ko: I was thrilled to read CR editorial veteran Lisa Low’s debut full-length poetry collection Replica, the Editors’ Selection for the Wisconsin Poetry Series, released in March 2026. Hailed as a “lyrical reckoning,” this book caught my eye immediately. In celebration of the book launch, I asked Low about her poetics and …

Today, contributor Gordon Taylor, whose “Memory Foam” is free to read on our site, sends us this delightful dispatch from his family archives. The Moonbeam Elf In a recent conversation with my mother, we discussed my passion for poetry in spite of how other members of our family are not overtly literary. My mother is …

Contributor Megan Callahan shares a pigeon-forward comic to accompany her story in issue 23.1.

Eric Weiskott interviews poet Victoria Chang on trees, artists, and writing for oneself.

How beautiful were those documents that organized the learning we would do in a class. I still love to look at them.

Now accepting entries for the Robert and Adele Schiff Awards!

I feel like every time I read the news these days, I log off steaming. There’s so much to be angry about, and with record-breaking heat waves in the Eastern United States, we’re sweltering outside and inside. While I was stewing in front of an AC unit and mulling over some poems, I thought, why …

Emerging writer Stephen Foster Smith on what inspired his poem “The Yam Reflects” and more

Associate Editor Andy Sia: We noticed a number of writers in our recent issue who are in relatively early stages of their publishing career, and reached out to chat with them as a part of our emerging writers series. In a sense, writers are always “emerging,” given the constant self-discovery and self-transformation that happen throughout …