It was by pure coincidence that I encountered news of the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering. A short blurb from a New York Times caught my…
Writer’s Block, Dickinson, and the Wonder of Interior Life
I don’t remember when poetry came into my life…
Selected Works by Women Writers: A Recommended Reading List
In honor of International Women’s Day, the board has put together a list of works written by women that we feel people should be reading…
Entering Middle Earth … and Staying There: The J.R.R. Tolkien Exhibit at The Morgan
Going to the Tolkien exhibit at The Morgan Library was for me a bit of time travel. My dad had read me The Hobbit and…
Kenneth Koch Poetry Prize Winners
Congratulations to the recipients of the Kenneth Koch Poetry Prize in honor of our 100th volume: Mackenzie Turgeon CC’21 for her poem “American Studies for…
100th Volume Retrospective: Happy Autumn Fields by John Ashbery
John Ashbery won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and many other prizes. This poem was published by the Review over twenty years after he…
100th Volume Retrospective: from “Dakar Doldrums” by Allen Ginsberg
At Columbia University, Ginsberg, Kerouac, and other beat poets got to know each other. Many of them were published in the Review. from “Dakar Doldrums”…
100th Volume Retrospective: Choruses by John Hollander
John Hollander was an eminent poet, scholar, and critic. He has written numerous poetry collections, the first of which won the Yale Series of Younger Poets…
100th Volume Retrospective: On a Terrace of Nails by Mark Statman
Today we return to prose with this work by Mark Statman. Since being published in the Columbia Review, he has published four of his own…
100th Volume Retrospective: Untitled by Kate Farrell
Kate Farrell has taught poetry in nursing homes, in public schools, and at Columbia. She has published multiple books, including poetry anthologies coauthored with Kenneth…