In their waxing and waning, seasons are like radio signals, and as we climbed toward our McMicken Hall office this morning, the forty-nine-degree air was a cold static on our naked forearms, calves, and flip-floppeted feet. People smug in their jeans and windbreakers were giving us impertinent looks. Once inside, we ransacked the CR’s desk …
More from our contributors on their work in our current issue—volume 8, number 1. We’re struck by how these three poets approach dailiness. Through lavish contemplation of common objects, events, or experiences, they enliven and enrich what often falls under our radar. Chad Sweeney: I’ve written a series of poems with place names for titles …
Writers: you still have a bit more than a month to enter our summer contest. We’ve received a bunch of prose submissions (three with the particularly intriguing titles “Oil Spills Remind Me of Him,” “The Claybelle Maniacs,” and “Swimming with Sharks. Or Not.”), but not much in the way of poetry. Maybe all you poets …
Our general reading period may be over, but that doesn’t mean our work is finished. Instead, we’re focusing on our summer contest, which is now open for submissions (submit!). Rumor has it that an armored truck, possibly filled with bees, will deliver the prize money in special-ops fashion, though we suspect it will probably be Nicola’s Honda, …
The summer issue is here! In an effort to save on shipping, and because our out-of-the-way attic office affords us lots of quality time with the sizable population of campus birds, we’ve decided to send issues via pigeon post. Though our dry runs were largely unsuccessful (and not especially dry), we finally figured out that …
When volunteer Brandon Whiting ate eight billiard balls, he began to bawl. He tried to explain, plainly, why he wanted to eat the balls, but his bass voice grew coarse, he clutched the base of his throat, and then the blue ball—not the cue ball—blew on a trajectory course right out of his gullet, straight …
Word has it that the new issue is on its way! We’re super excited—the cover, featuring Bill Wolff’s sculpture More, looks great, and we have a terrific group of poems, stories, and essays from a wide range of writers. We’ll be mailing it out in the coming days, but in the meantime we want to …
We’re done proofreading! We learned a few new style rules. iPods, for example, have earned their own special rule in the 16th edition of The Chicago Manual of Style: “Brand names that begin with a lowercase letter followed by a capital letter now retain the lowercase letter even at the beginning of a sentence or …
Our policy is that we don’t eat, drink, or sleep until we finish proofreading the forthcoming issue. However, when Assistant Editor Matt McBride learned of the following, recent change to The Chicago Manual of Style he stiffened, stopped blinking in response to stimuli, and developed an impressive head of mouth-foam: “In a return to the …
We’re still proofreading our forthcoming issue. Our blue pencils are worn to nubs. We’re pinching them between pennies to make our marks. Our last geeky proofreading factoid caused a riot on the quad of our campus, with pro-hyphenation factions dance-fighting anti-hyphenation factions, so we thought we’d fuel the revolution by pointing out another change to …
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