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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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  • Exposure #39: N.Y.C., 545 8th Avenue, 03.23.06, 1:17 p.m. by Barbara Probst
  • Mask LXXVIII 2007 by John Stezaker
  • Nouns by Sarah Charlesworth
  • Indian Palm Study II by Cyprien Gaillard

Current Issue: # 50

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 50th anniversary issue features:

Fiction

Danielle Evans, Travel Tips for Young Women;
Lydia Conklin, For A Future Person, Horse Time, The Great Bonfire;
Benjamin Buchholz, Third Tourniquet;
Joselyn Whitney Takacs, A Form of Waiting

Nonfiction

Antonia Blair, Feral Children;
Scott Anderson, The Hotel;
Honor Moore, Rowboat;
Oliver Bullough, Foreign Woman;
Julia Grønnevet, The Interstitial Space;
Alison Barker, Stepping-stones: Mamaw;
Lucas Mann, Fat Man: A Day in Calories

Poetry

Robert Ostrom, A Boy Cupping a Cricket Turns to Us and Says;
L. S. Klatt, Intrepid Pilot;
John Koethe, 1135, Arthur, The Specious Present;
Andrew Osborn, The Etymology of Anguish, On Beyondness;
Melissa Range, Negative Theology, Ashburnham;
John A Nieves, Elegy on an Epigraph;
Morri Creech, Heirloom: Nazi S.S. Cigarette Lighter, The Stone Well at Mt. Pisgah Church;
Kirstin Hotelling Zona, Return, Fog;
Peter Campion, Danielle, Villa Sciarra: Azaleas;
Kimberly Grey, Invention;
Gale Marie Thompson, Sigourney Weaver

Interviews

Emily Firetog, Interview with Roddy Doyle;
Megan Foley, Interview with Stephen Elliot

Art

Barbara Probst, Exposure #39: N.Y.C., 545 8th Avenue, 03.23.06, 1:17 p.m.;
John Stezaker, Mask LXXVIII 2007;
Sarah Charlesworth, Verbs, Nouns;
Renée Green, Exhibition invite;
Jenny Holzer, Left Hand (Palm Rolled);
Cyprien Gaillard, Indian Palm Study II, Indian Palm Study II (detail);
Adam McEwen, Untitled (Bret)ars;
Claire Jamieson, Eternally Yours

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Back Issues

  • Issue 49

    Michelle Tea, T Cooper, Judith Thurman, and more.

  • 48

    Oliver Sacks, Richard Ford, Jorie Graham and more

  • 47

    Michael Ondaatje, Lydia Millet, Gary Snyder, and more.

  • 46

    Susan Orlean, Steve Almond, David Shields, and more.

  • 45

    Terese Svoboda, Sarah Manguso, Deb Olin Unferth, and more

  • 44

    Etgar Keret, Rebecca Curtis, Stacy Kidd, and more.

  • 43

    John Haskell, Wayne Koestenbaum, Max Winter, and more.

  • 42

    Lydia Davis, Eula Bliss, Amy Bloom, and more.

  • 41

    John D’Agata, Phillip Lopate, Mary Jo Bang, and more.