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  • Exposure #39: N.Y.C., 545 8th Avenue, 03.23.06, 1:17 p.m. by Barbara Probst
  • Mask LXXVIII 2007 by John Stezaker
  • Nouns by Sarah Charlesworth
  • Indian Palm Study II by Cyprien Gaillard







Current Issue: # 50

Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art

is an annual publication that features the very best in poetry,

fiction, nonfiction, and art. We were founded in 1977

and continue to be one of the few national literary journals

entirely edited, designed, and produced by students.

Our 50th anniversary issue features:

Fiction

Danielle Evans, Travel Tips for Young Women;

Lydia Conklin, For A Future Person, Horse Time, The Great Bonfire;

Benjamin Buchholz, Third Tourniquet;

Joselyn Whitney Takacs, A Form of Waiting

Nonfiction

Antonia Blair, Feral Children;

Scott Anderson, The Hotel;

Honor Moore, Rowboat;

Oliver Bullough, Foreign Woman;

Julia Grønnevet, The Interstitial Space;

Alison Barker, Stepping-stones: Mamaw;

Lucas Mann, Fat Man: A Day in Calories

Poetry

Robert Ostrom, A Boy Cupping a Cricket Turns to Us and Says;

L. S. Klatt, Intrepid Pilot;

John Koethe, 1135, Arthur, The Specious Present;

Andrew Osborn, The Etymology of Anguish, On Beyondness;

Melissa Range, Negative Theology, Ashburnham;

John A Nieves, Elegy on an Epigraph;

Morri Creech, Heirloom: Nazi S.S. Cigarette Lighter, The Stone Well at Mt. Pisgah Church;

Kirstin Hotelling Zona, Return, Fog;

Peter Campion, Danielle, Villa Sciarra: Azaleas;

Kimberly Grey, Invention;

Gale Marie Thompson, Sigourney Weaver

Interviews

Emily Firetog, Interview with Roddy Doyle;

Megan Foley, Interview with Stephen Elliot

Art

Barbara Probst, Exposure #39: N.Y.C., 545 8th Avenue, 03.23.06, 1:17 p.m.;

John Stezaker, Mask LXXVIII 2007;

Sarah Charlesworth, Verbs, Nouns;

Renée Green, Exhibition invite;

Jenny Holzer, Left Hand (Palm Rolled);

Cyprien Gaillard, Indian Palm Study II, Indian Palm Study II (detail);

Adam McEwen, Untitled (Bret)ars;

Claire Jamieson, Eternally Yours

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