Colorado Review Podcast: Recent Episodes
Colorado Review Podcast
Into the ArchivesA National Poetry Month Digital ReadingListen in as we move through decades of poetry at Colorado Review in celebration of National Poetry Month!
This June, social media manager and associate editor Alec Witthohn, delved into Colorado Review‘s archives to bring you eight exceptional poets from across the magazine’s history. Interns and editors here at Colorado Review helped to select and read some our favorite poems while Alec provides historical and aesthetic background on each poet, guiding you on a journey that spans all the way from the Winter of 1956 to the Summer of 2017.
Selections include:
Kitasono Katue – “A Black Chapel” read by Alec Witthohn – (Winter 1956)
Rosario Castellanos – “Useless Day” read by Carolina Bucheli – (Fall 1979)
Yusef Komunyakaa – “The Brain to the Heart” read by Linnea Harris – (Fall 1985)
Holly Prado – “Never Another Light Than This” read by C. E. Janecek – (Fall/Winter 1988)
Toi Derricotte – “The Wedding” read by Lauren Furman – (Spring/Summer 1989)
Brenda Hillman – “After the Feast at Year’s End” read by Mika Todd – (Summer 2012)
Victoria Chang – “[I Used to My Father Used to Used to Sit in a Living Room with My]” read by Tasha Seebeck – (Fall/Winter 2012)
Kaveh Akbar – “On Bridges and the Shadows of Bridges” read by Stephanie G’Schwind – (Summer 2017)
In this audio installment of “In Conversation,” CR‘s recurring interview series, C Culbertson sits down with Colorado Prize for Poetry winner Adrian Lürssen to discuss his book, Human Is to Wander. Lürssen reads a few poems from the collection and talks about his inspiration for the work, the biography and personal history of the poems, […]
In part two of Colorado Review’s May podcast, Podcast Host Lilia Shrayfer sits down with Colorado State University alum and former Colorado Review Podcast Editor Kylan Rice. Together, they talk about their experiences at AWP, writing and professionalization, and life after the MFA.
In this special segment, Colorado Review celebrates National Poetry Month with readings across our issues beginning with our first issue dating back to Winter 1956-57. During the last few weeks, interns have curated selections from Langston Hughes, Gillian Kiley, Denise Levertov, Lisa Fishman, Martha Ronk, Kevin Goodan, Charles Bukowski, and C.D. Wright.
In Conversation With Cynthia Parker-Ohene This month CLP editorial assistant Sara Hughes sits down with Cynthia Parker-Ohene to discuss her debut collection, Daughters of Harriet, part of the Mountain/West Poetry Series published by the Center for Literary Publishing. In a wide-ranging discussion, Cynthia and Sara talk about the legacy of Black women, namely Harriet […]
In this month’s episode, Podcast Editor C Culbertson sits down with Leonora Simonovis, whose book Study of the Raft won the 2021 Colorado Prize for Poetry. In their conversation, C talks with Leonora about writing from multilingual backgrounds, the worlds we construct from childhood, memory, and place, as well as modes of writing poetry and what it […]
In this episode, Editor-in-Chief Stephanie G’Schwind interviews Lauren Haldeman about her work “Field #1,” from the graphic memoir Team Photograph. With this being Colorado Review’s first piece of graphic memoir, Stephanie and Lauren discuss the intricacies of the genre. Lauren Haldeman was also the recipient of the 2017 Colorado Prize for Poetry with her collection Instead of […]
This month’s episode features Matthew Gavin Frank, creative nonfiction writer, poet, and Professor of Creative Writing at Northern Michigan University. Host Lilia Shrayfer talks with Matthew about his latest book, Flight of the Diamond Smugglers: A Tale of Pigeons, Obsession, and Greed Along Coastal South Africa. Listen in to hear this brilliant writer talk in […]
In this episode of the Colorado Review Podcast, host Lilia Shrayfer sits down with Danny Thiemann to discuss his story “One Bad Night in San José, Costa Rica,” forthcoming in the Colorado Review‘s Fall/Winter 2021 issue. This story was awarded the 2021 Nelligan Prize for Short Fiction by final judge T. Geronimo Johnson. Thiemann […]
Please join Colorado Review associate editor Nicole Piasecki and writer Sarah Curtis for a discussion about Curtis's recently published essay "The Ghosts of Lubbock," which was published in CR's Summer 2021 issue.
This month's episode kicks off the start of fall with not one, but two authors! Podcast host Lilia Shrayfer sits down with Michelle Ross and Kim Magowan to talk about their latest co-written short story, "Twenty Three Safety Manuals." This episode features conversation on the craft of collaborative story-telling, writing women inside and outside of gender roles of their time, and the relationship between what the writer intends and the reader imagines on the page.
This month’s episode brings into conversation author Iris Jamahl Dunkle and CLP associate editor and graduate student intern Annmarie Delfino. The two discuss Dunkle’s recently published book, West : Fire : Archive, from CLP’s Mountain/West Poetry Series, as well as how writing about the environment bridges the historical and the personal to recover landscapes […]
May 2021: Episode 59
Podcast host C Culbertson sits down with Brandon Krieg to talk about ecopoetics, environmental thought, and how the practice of walking calls on us to notice the world around us. Krieg reads the poems “In Case of Loss” and “Havening,” from his book Magnifier, winner of the 2019 Colorado Prize for Poetry.
We are back just in time for National Poetry Month! New podcast hosts C Culbertson (they/them) and Lilia Shrayfer (she/her) sit down with Kate Bolton Bonnici, whose debut collection of poems Night Burialwon the 2020 Colorado Prize for Poetry. This inaugural episode features talks about what the lineage of classical poetry and scholarship can teach folks who are young in their writing life, the poem as object and offering, writing through grief, and the work of feminist critic and scholar Julia Kristeva. You’ll also get to hear a beautiful reading by Kate Bolton Bonnici herself!
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After a long hiatus, podcast host Daniel Schonning takes a quick look at Matthew Gellman’s “My Family Asks Me to Speak,” featured in the Summer 2020 issue of Colorado Review.
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In the February episode of the Colorado Review podcast, host Daniel Schonning interviews poetry book review editor Dan Beachy-Quick. They touch on the ethics, methods, and merits of writing a book review.
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