The editors are delighted to officially announce that the Columbia Journal Fall Contest is now open for submissions in poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and, for the...
Announcing Columbia Journal Issue 57
Order your copy of Columbia Journal's Spring 2019 edition, Issue 57, featuring work by Jenny Holzer, Patti Smith, Eileen Myles, Duy Doan, and Donika Kelly.
Review: Savage Appetites by Rachel Monroe
Monroe is writing from inside the obsession. She is someone who is prone to what she calls “crime funks,” someone who has always been “murder-minded.”
Storytelling, Music, and Publishing: An Interview with Eva Lou
Eva Lou is a Taiwanese-born, American-educated writer who has called Hawaii, New York, Seoul, and Paris home. She has a BA in Comparative Literature from...
Review: Love in the New Millennium by Can Xue
With its non sequitur dialogue, arias sounding from the sky, and houses that vanish behind characters’ backs, the book takes place in a dreamscape—Dali’s playful...
Review: The Yellow House by Sarah M. Broom
Sarah M. Broom’s debut book The Yellow House reads like a multifaceted map of not just a place, but also an expanse of time, marking...
Of Mothers & Mother Tongues: Interview with Ed Bok Lee
Poet Ed Bok Lee discusses the role of family, evolution, and trauma in his newest collection, "Mitochondrial Night."
Review: Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion by Jia Tolentino
Trick Mirror is a book that only a millennial could write, but one who is smart enough to be able to see our lives objectively,...
Pain You Can’t Resist: An Interview with Emily Bernard
Emily Bernard talks about her new book of essays Black is the Body and why she can't resist the emotional cost of showing her scars.
Four Poems by Dia Felix
Death like a double dipped dome cone / a sunny Sunday I swam into your mirrored glasses, / orange rims like a safety cone.
Fall 2019 Contest: Meet the Judges
The first-ever Columbia Journal Fall Contest is now open for submissions in poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and, for the first time, art. Our judges will be...
A Little Bit Dopamine, A Little Bit Conversation
Even the teensiest of curtsies / will make your shadow go away.
I can’t foresee the changes and I can’t know what I will, undoubtedly, regret, but I can come to see me as a future, you as a violent past.
I regret my dreaming, its final actor.
Poems by Ana Elena Pena translated from Spanish
Five poems about love, frenetic energy and wanting translated from Ana Elena Pena's original text in Spanish by Hannah Bishop.