A National Poetry Month Digital Reading

Listen 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)

By C Culbertson

In this audio installment of Con(verse), 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, and how he revisits these poems now—as a reader rather than a writer.

C Culbertson is a third year MFA candidate in poetry at Colorado State University, where they are a Gill-Ronda Fellow in Creative Writing and associate editor at Colorado Review. Their work appears or is forthcoming in Nat. Brut and Posit.

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.