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...
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."
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.
TEACHER-CREATURE
This is your teacher-creature speaking.
Jade Fluid
Moved by beautiful images, like they’re powerful dreams / in search of the healing energy
The Interior
The mountains loom / Large like questions / About poverty.
Deadline Extended: Fall 2019 Contest Now Open for Submissions!
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...
Poemas de las protestas
Until Mother's Day of 2018, Luis Montenegro took part in the Nicaraguan Protests. In his poetry, the doctor examines the ongoing unrest.