Lisa Ampleman: Here at the CR, we swear allegiance to the Chicago Manual of Style; here’s photographic proof of the day that the 16th edition arrived and we vowed to employ the Oxford comma and spell out all whole numbers under one hundred. As a new assistant editor, I’ve spent the past six weeks memorizing every …
By now followers of our blog have been privy to posts by our new sunny-on-the-surface-yet-with-dark-hidden-depths staffers Becky Adnot-Haynes and Lisa Ampleman (by day, they read submissions; by night, they prowl the city, scrawling HYPERCORRECTION MUST DIE in scarlet lipstick on the windows of citizenry who have been heard to say, in the course of a …
Here at CR, we’re looking forward to the howling winds and dead-tree vistas of January. Okay, not really, but we ARE anticipating the new issue, which will hit the frozen or semifrozen (depending on the latitude) North American newsstands then. Either you can pull on your long underwear, lace up your boots, and brave the …
We’re so excited about our new online submissions system that we can’t stop celebrating. Not with alcohol—that’s not our style—but with lots and lots of sugar. We’ve consumed rafts of Laffy Taffy, Bottle Caps, and those hard candies that resemble (sort of) strawberries, and we’ve taken to singing the Willy Wonka soundtrack and miming exaggerated …
It’s wonderful to have our offices here in the campus clock tower (a space we’re afforded because no one knows we’ve moved in), but the giant, moving machinery—wheels and pinions, swinging levers, spinning gears—could be considered a hazard of the job. One quickly learns how to duck, hop, and somersault with the rest of the …
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 …
Our own Lisa Ampleman has won the latest Wick Chapbook Award for her manuscript I’ve Been Collecting This to Tell You. The judge was poet and professor Maggie Anderson, and the book will be out in spring of 2012. Three cheers for Lisa! (Assistant Editor Matt McBride is a previous Wick winner.)
We’re already up to a month’s worth of “Why We Like It,” a weekly blog feature that highlights work from recent issues and provides a glimpse into the minds of the interesting volunteers who open your submission envelopes. This anonymous blogger’s mind resembles an overfed hamster on a rusty, cobweb-draped wheel, but thankfully poet and …
A book isn’t just words tossed into the ether. The choices made around how to contain those words matter, too. The artistic intent stretches beyond the ephemeral.
Last week, while taking breaks from proofreading, we tore out our vaguely brown office-grade carpeting in order to prepare the floor for the Italian marble we’re hoping to get sometime in the next month (which, we’d like to say, will look fantastic with the gold-plated light fixtures and doorknobs we’ve ordered, but that’s another story). …
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