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We’re so excited to announce our nominations for this year’s Orison and Best of the Net Anthologies!

“I’m not going to talk about ways to succeed in poetry—not how to craft a perfect line or please your reader or even excite the staff at a literary journal. Instead, I’m going to briefly talk about a poetics of failure.”

The beauty of first-person narration lies in its complexity.

Our submission period for the print journal starts on September 1! But pay attention: it’ll end earlier, on January 1, 2021.

We wanted to introduce or reintroduce ourselves to you here at the start of the year. Here are some good news and goings-on from our staff (we’re writers too!).

As part of our series From Our Contributors, Rage Hezekiah explains the background behind her poem “Sex Education.”

Those of you who have followed the CR for awhile likely know that our summer contest is named for Robert and Adele Schiff, whose names are also on a foundation that gives the magazine a great deal of support. We wanted to take the opportunity to say a little more about them, in particular about Adele, who passed away in late April.

A microreview of Of Color (McSweeney’s, 2020) and interview with Jaswinder Bolina. “The book is the culmination of almost ten years of accidental prose. ….”

Continuing our series from our contributors to Issue 17.1, today we feature Leah Umansky, who reads her poems from our pages but also describes the project they’re from, Of Tyrant.

Contributor Adam O. Davis explains the impetus behind his poem in our pages, “Weather Apothecary,” and shares some illustrative photos.