The 35th Anniversary Edition
Cold Mountain Review (CMR) is pleased to announce the release of the Fall 2007 anniversary issue. Celebrating 35 years of publication, the double-issue, edited by Joseph Bathanti, puts forth the best writing from Cold Mountain Review's rich history, as well as offering an introduction by R.T. Smith, editor of Shenandoah: The Washington and Lee University Review and founding editor of CMR.
If you would like a copy, you may subscribe or send $12, along with your contact information, for the single issue to our office at Appalachian State University.
The anniversary issue was made possible in part by the generous contributions from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Rockwell Foundation, Appalachian's College of Arts and Sciences, Appalachian's Department of English, and support from individuals.
About Cold Mountain Review
Founded in 1972 by the poet R.T. Smith and other graduate students in the English Department at Appalachian State University, Cold Mountain Review publishes poetry by and interviews with new and notable poets from across the nation and overseas, including Sarah Kennedy, Robert Morgan, Susan Ludvigson, Aleida Rodríguez, and Virgil Suárez. We also feature reviews of new books of poetry in English from small independent presses to large university and trade presses. In addition to bringing the books of neglected small presses to the attention of readers, Cold Mountain Review aims to present poets from diverse backgrounds. As part of our mission to make poetry more broadly relevant in our culture, Cold Mountain Review will also support writers of politically engaged poems. This is an underdeveloped area in contemporary American poetry, despite the legacy of Whitman, and we aim to support poets who wish to explore and develop their voices in this way.
Cold Mountain Review also strives for diversity among reviewers so as to move beyond the unproductive but common divide between creative writers and scholars: besides practicing poets, book reviewers include academics with expertise in contemporary poetry. Moreover, by providing single book reviews of 900 words and review essays covering 3-4 volumes of 3,000 words, and by including sample poems for each volume reviewed, Cold Mountain Review provides a comprehensiveness and breadth rarely available to readers of contemporary poetry.
By including the work of U.S. poets alongside the work of international poets, we hope to foster a review that spans national boarders and addresses the larger issues of contemporary world poetry. As R.T. Smith describes the beginnings of the Review over three decades ago: “At the time I was deep onto Gary Snyder's work and had fallen in love with his versions of Han Shan's Cold Mountain poems, so I wrote Gary and asked permission to print quotations from his translations and told him I planned to name the journal Cold Mountain Review.” Thus, at its founding the Review drew from a rich mix of local and global. We hope that this approach brings writers and readers alongside broadly diverse regional, national, and international audiences.