"/ I give you / the air / of my lungs / may it be / the aperture / your memory needs"
Spring 2020 Contest Runner Up in Poetry: Meetra Javed
"Loved like the moon tied to the sky, / sometimes full, / other times fallen-"
Spring Contest Winner in Poetry: Mateo Lara
"cutting memories of Papa, lined-up / history..."
“la vuelta” by Connie Mae Oliver
"she wrote poems / they’re trapped in Valencia / in a cabinet with avon samples // she did write poems / i said to her...
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Four Poems by Jay Besemer
"its / note / a / common name."
“Red’s Shrewdness” by Lauren Camp
"Red goes on / in my cavernous eyes."
Womxn’s History Month Special Issue Poetry Runner Up: “Claiming Honey”
"My mother knows how / to choose the best: the ones / with smooth pale skin. / She presses a honeydew / to her cheek,...
Womxn’s History Month Special Issue Poetry Runner-Up: “The Washing Society”
"The poem wants to try on her voice, / saying I did this work...."
Womxn’s History Month Special Issue Poetry Winner: Poems by Winniebell Xinyu Zong
"oh what if / I / will be the reason / you are re- / membered."
Two Bijan Elahi poems translated by Kayvan Tahmasebian and Rebecca Ruth Gould
It is neither strange/ nor fun/ when they knock on the door.
Womxn’s History Month Special Issue: Winners & Honorable Mentions Announced
Columbia Journal is excited to announce the winners and finalists of our inaugural Womxn's History Month Special Issue, in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and art. We...