Colorado ReviewPub Date : 2024-03-01DOI: 10.1353/col.2024.a922459
Alex Tretbar
{"title":"After Hours","authors":"Alex Tretbar","doi":"10.1353/col.2024.a922459","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/col.2024.a922459","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract: The poem is a response to and an extension of Hamlet’s “I have of late, but wherefore I know not, lost all my mirth...”, and is an attempt to locate solace in brokenness. It also seeks to capture the essence of something that appears in much of my work: the bewildering sense that one’s bedroom is infinite and contains all other bedrooms that one has ever slept and waked in, and every bedroom one has yet to sleep and wake in.","PeriodicalId":511169,"journal":{"name":"Colorado Review","volume":"20 17","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140277574","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Colorado ReviewPub Date : 2024-03-01DOI: 10.1353/col.2024.a922463
Joshua Kurtz
{"title":"Her Bear","authors":"Joshua Kurtz","doi":"10.1353/col.2024.a922463","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/col.2024.a922463","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract: “Her Bear” recounts the story of a child fleeing Romania alongside her family and her teddy bear. Through the eyes of the bear, the poem explores themes of grief, immigration, and home.","PeriodicalId":511169,"journal":{"name":"Colorado Review","volume":"118 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140278477","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Colorado ReviewPub Date : 2024-03-01DOI: 10.1353/col.2024.a922467
Jessica Dionne
{"title":"A Stratigrapher Examines the Layers of Ararat","authors":"Jessica Dionne","doi":"10.1353/col.2024.a922467","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/col.2024.a922467","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract: This poem examines the historical implications of Mount Ararat—both as a modern-day landmark and as the Biblical location where Noah’s Ark landed after the flood.","PeriodicalId":511169,"journal":{"name":"Colorado Review","volume":"70 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140273957","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Colorado ReviewPub Date : 2024-03-01DOI: 10.1353/col.2024.a922468
Bruce Bond
{"title":"Cross","authors":"Bruce Bond","doi":"10.1353/col.2024.a922468","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/col.2024.a922468","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract: This poem, beginning with a meditation on a painting of a ship and the imaginative leap required to animate its motion, explores the threat of systemic abuse in psychological terms as the fallout of essentialism, transference, and the desire to belong.","PeriodicalId":511169,"journal":{"name":"Colorado Review","volume":"13 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140267951","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Colorado ReviewPub Date : 2024-03-01DOI: 10.1353/col.2024.a922485
Jack R Ridl
{"title":"It’s Often Time to Feed the Birds, and: My Mother’s Ivory Hippopotamus","authors":"Jack R Ridl","doi":"10.1353/col.2024.a922485","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/col.2024.a922485","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract: This poem explores living within the everyday, a holiday, the unknowable time of the outer cosmos.","PeriodicalId":511169,"journal":{"name":"Colorado Review","volume":"18 20","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140268855","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Colorado ReviewPub Date : 2024-03-01DOI: 10.1353/col.2024.a922481
Rebekah Remington
{"title":"Pond Glimmer","authors":"Rebekah Remington","doi":"10.1353/col.2024.a922481","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/col.2024.a922481","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract: The poem is a lyric meditation on the desire for both spiritual and everyday transformation.","PeriodicalId":511169,"journal":{"name":"Colorado Review","volume":"532 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140274147","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Colorado ReviewPub Date : 2024-03-01DOI: 10.1353/col.2024.a922462
Erica Reid
{"title":"Sestina Obbligato, and: After Rain","authors":"Erica Reid","doi":"10.1353/col.2024.a922462","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/col.2024.a922462","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract: “Sestina Obbligato” breaks the sestina form into a series of linked stories, each tying back to themes of music, physical contact, obligation, and a complicated relationship with a mother figure. In “After Rain,” the speaker finds it easier to deal with the discomforts of the body than to address the discomforts truly keeping her awake at night, specifically the absence of maternal feelings within herself.","PeriodicalId":511169,"journal":{"name":"Colorado Review","volume":"278 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140281235","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Colorado ReviewPub Date : 2024-03-01DOI: 10.1353/col.2024.a922480
Christopher Brean Murray
{"title":"The Cabinet","authors":"Christopher Brean Murray","doi":"10.1353/col.2024.a922480","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/col.2024.a922480","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract: “The Cabinet” features the meandering monologue of a speaker who longs for “the bottles of solutions that enhance/memory.” Yet, it seems that the more he remembers, the more reason there is to forget the “wars, floods, betrayal[s]” and other difficulties that he and his family have endured.","PeriodicalId":511169,"journal":{"name":"Colorado Review","volume":"149 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140282247","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Colorado ReviewPub Date : 2024-03-01DOI: 10.1353/col.2024.a922461
Michelle Ross
{"title":"Little Pig, Little Pig","authors":"Michelle Ross","doi":"10.1353/col.2024.a922461","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/col.2024.a922461","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract: In a world fraught with external threats, a divorced mother grapples with growing unease—toward her fourteen-year-old son, who has begun to eerily resemble her violent brother, as well as toward her own judgment, which begins to come into question when she gives in to her son’s demands to move into their shed. As the story unfolds, the line between reality and perception blurs, leaving the mother with an unsettling sense of uncertainty.","PeriodicalId":511169,"journal":{"name":"Colorado Review","volume":"214 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140270713","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}