Fall 2008 Issue
Cold Mountain Review is pleased to announce the release of our Fall, 2008 issue. This issue offers the sort of poetry trove that readers have come to expect from our thirty-five year old literary journal, with poems by Ricardo Pau-Llosa, Eugene Gloria, Susan Rich, Frederick Smock, Bruce Snider, and other notable contributors. The issue also presents a short story by Drue Heinz Literature Prize-winner John Blair, as well as a gripping piece of creative nonfiction by Glen Retief. In addition, it boasts a poignant photo essay, Born Behind Bars, by Caroline Bennett and a striking, full-color cover photograph by Richard Rapfogel.
If you would like a copy, you may subscribe or send $8, along with your contact information, for the single issue to our office at Appalachian State University.
About Cold Mountain Review
Cold Mountain Review is a forum for well-told stories. We publish narrative poetry and lyrical prose, and we are interested in the way contemporary literature is testing the boundaries of genre. Each issue of CMR features work intended to transport the reader to unexpected landscapes—emotional terrains that are sometimes joyful, occasionally disconcerting, always interesting.
Since its founding 35 years ago, CMR has featured writers such as Robert Morgan, R.T. Smith, Natasha Trethewey, Virgil Suarez, and Fred Chappell. CMR contributors have among them an Academy Award in Literature, and a number of other accolades that attest to the quality of conversation that has long been taking place in the pages of CMR.
Writers have different approaches to storytelling, and they write for varied reasons; but when they publish their work in CMR, they are telling their story directly to you, the reader. Lean in. Listen.