Current Issue: # 49

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

Kevin Barry, Ernestine and Kit; Rudy Rucker, Vib; Karl Taro Greenfeld, Client; Joanna Hershon, Traveling in the Moment; Leni Zumas, Toothed; Annemarie Neary, Babylon

Nonfiction

Michelle Tea, Summer of Lost Jobs; Paul Elie, Good Editor Hard to Find; Molly Wizenberg, Excellence is an Ugly Pasta; T Cooper, Up in Arms; Frank Huyler, The Rock Star; Frank Huyler, The Accountant; Siri Hustvedt, A Few Thoughts on Reading; Kevin Haworth, Cut; Sara Faye Lieber, Interview with Judith Thurman

Poetry

Cal Bedient, After Bronzino; Brian Foley, Amendment; Bob Hicok, Were I Adam , the Poem I’d Write Eve; Bob Hicok, A Theory of Matter; Sarah Gridley, Camera Obscura; Jacques Rancourt, Winter Bedroom; Jennifer Militello, Dictionary of Feigning Survival; Jennifer Militello, Dictionary of Resignation; Sasha West, The Earth Is a Spartan Lover; Harryette Mullen, This Urban Garden: L.A. Tanka; Nathaniel Mackey, Song of the Andoumboulou : 89; Adam Day, Sarclet; Malachi Black, Coming and Going; Anne Shaw, Ransom; Michael Palmer, Traumgedicht; Franz Wright, Nude with Handgun and Rosary; David Lau, Walkie-Talkie Canticle; David Lau, Tombs Called Matilde; Kristen Gleason, Good Plan; Larissa Szporluk, Traffic with Macbeth; Mark Wagenaar, Nocturne Past Dreaming

Poetry Runner-Ups

Katherine Lucas Anderson, Wishful Thinking; Matthew Kelsey, Awake in the Woods of Sleep