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McMicken Hall! Our snug office is in the cupola. (We also report on the weather and traffic patterns for Channel 9.)

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, …

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 …

Here at CR we’ll occasionally “lose” a volunteer. We do our best to ensure that these incidents occur infrequently, but when you have a staff directly exposed to as much incomprehensibly good literature as we do, someone is bound to cut ties with reality now and again. Sadly, this was the case with Katherine Zlabek. …

Dear blog readers, Though one member of our ragtag staff is still stranded in Atlanta, the rest of us made it back from AWP bleary-eyed but buoyant. We were contemplating a blog post that would convey our pell-mell, nerve-endings-afire conference experience when we happened upon volunteer staffer Don Peteroy’s Facebook account of our offsite reading …

As many of you know, poetry editor Don Bogen won the Fulbright-Queen’s University Belfast Creative Writing Scholar Award (the only Fulbright Award in creative writing). In mid-January he hopped the pond and is now settling into his temporary digs. We look forward to Don’s updates on his adventures in Northern Ireland (last week, he bought …