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Spring 2020 Contest – Call for Submissions
The Columbia Journal is now open for submissions to our annual Spring Contest in fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.
Two Poems by Kate Angus
"The ocean is all the years we won’t meet again"
Call for Submissions: Black History Month Special Issue
At the Columbia Journal, we believe in creating space for and celebrating traditionally underrepresented voices. While we pursue this aim year round, this February marks...
Happy Holidays from Columbia Journal!
This holiday season, we're snuggling up with good books and dreams for the new decade. In case you're as much a fan of nostalgia as...
From “Aletheia”
"how we in love performed / a spine"
Review: “Dispatch” by Cameron Awkward-Rich
The winner of the 2018 Lexi Rudnitsky Editor's Choice Award, Cameron Awkward-Rich's new collection "Dispatch" grapples with 'the pains of navigating dailiness in a body'...
Two Poems by Callie Siskel
"the power to see ourselves / in sculpted figures, caged / in stars."
Confession
that Sunday when you / preached all nightmares are / the dead / telling us to confess
Wing in the Freezer
"I don’t feed the dead, / but last night I spoke with them."
Poems by Gabriella R. Tallmadge: Veterans Day 2019 Special Issue, Poetry
Labyrinth, rapture, salvo. The release, all at once, a rack of rockets, a salve. Dismantling the elk nest, ants in the scaffolding of our bed....
Veterans Day 2019 Special Issue
At the Columbia Journal, we believe that the stories and voices of service members and civilians affected by war should be circulated and contemplated. Today...