Current Issue: # 48

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 current issue features:

Fiction

Sean Casey, Our Final Shower; Matthew Derby, How the Rebels Took Port Harcourt; Alix Ohlin, Chinese Restaurant; Clancy Martin, Short Trip to Nicaragua; Cynthia Reeves, Contest Winner: Falling Through the New World

Nonfiction

Oliver Sacks, Colorado Springs Revisited; Richard Ford, The Middle Way; Ryan Flaherty, The Last Breath of Paul Celan; Alexis Tonti, Interview: Louis Menand Reaches Critical Mass; Morris Dickstein, About Face; Dennis Lang, Mangoes Falling: A Recession Dialogue; Rachel Dickinson, Bright Angel Trail

Poetry

Melissa Kwasny, Telekinesis, Reading Beckett; Peter Davidson, Objective Vertigo; Geoffrey G. O’Brien, Having Since Moved On, Left Behind; Joanna Klink, Safekeeping; Rae Gouirand, Forth; Stephanie Kartalopoulos, Amulet; Jorie Graham, Treadmill; Pura López-Colomé, translated by Forrest Gander, Cell, Vision; Anna Journey, Fever Dream as a Starved Pitcher Plant on a Swamp’s Winter Shore; Ben Lerner, The Spider; Zachary Pace, Recall; Jenny Gropp Hess, Contest Winner: Image Evolution; Anne Marie Rooney, Letter to a Lampshade; Mark Wunderlich, Lent; Ken White, Oculus, Though Our Mouths Be Taken from Us

Art

Willy Wong, This Land Was Made for Me and You; Andrew Liebchen, 10,000-Year Monastery; Bryony Roberts, Downward Spiral: A Space of Emotional Deterrence; Charles Alwakeel, 10,000-Year Warning System; Christopher Garcia, 10,000 Jars; Stuart Henley, 311 Million Objects; Emcee C.M., The C.R.I.E.R.S.: A Call to Tears; Claire Jamieson, Eternally Yours

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