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Issue 50 Launch Party Pics

May 2, 2012

The staff of issues 50 and 51 joined an incredible group of contributors past and present to celebrate the arrival of the 50th Issue of Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art.

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Issue 50 Launch Party May 1 in NYC

April 23, 2012

Issue 50 is about to launch and it’s time to celebrate! Come toast the new issue with us on May 1. Details: May 1, 2012, 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm Pianos Bar 158 Ludlow Street (corner of Stanton), NYC Readings from Donald Antrim – Seth Fried – Robert Ostrom – Kimberly Grey – Scott Anderson [...]

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2012 Contest Winners

March 31, 2012

From our Poetry Editor, John Fenlon Hogan: Gale Marie Thompson’s poem, “Sigourney Weaver” was selected by Eileen Myles as the winner of Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art’s 2012 Poetry Contest. “I have so much optimism / that when I look around me I squint. / All I want is for someone to let [...]

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Archive

Since the very first issue, Columbia has published innovative poems, stories and nonfiction — now we’re pleased to present all of it in searchable PDF format on our website. Come check out what Stanley
Kunitz had to say about young poets in 1977. Read interviews with Czeslaw Milosz and Grace Paley, an essay about California by John McPhee, and fiction by poet James Tate. This archive, lovingly assembled by Columbia’s student staff over the past year, includes such gems as The Bath by Raymond Carver and ten Borges poems translated by Willis Barnstone.

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