2018 Crab Creek Review spring issue coming soon!
Featuring new work from Derek Annis, Andrew Cox, Jessica Goodfellow, Tina Kelley, Erin Malone, Susan Blackwell Ramsey, Jordan Hartt, Kathryn Hunt, Gail Martin, Diane K. Martin, Ellen Welcker, Julie Marie Wade, and more. Interview with Donna Miscolta (Hola & Goodbye).
----------------------------------------------- Kid, you’ve got to keep asking. What I don’t know may kill us both. Zoos and circuses hold animals, not solutions. In this light I am an island of shadow across your kitchen floor between you and the fridge. You won’t cross over the dark exaggeration of my shape; I won’t move from the window. No idea why falling stars drop or if they’re sharp. Listen to me: don’t listen to me. By the time my wisdom makes a dent your world has changed. from Michael Mercurio's "Monster" |
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Announcing the 2018 Crab Creek Review Poetry Prize! Contest opens Feb. 15th. Judged by Maggie Smith!
Contest deadline is May 15, 2018. A $500 prize
will be awarded for the winning poem. All entries considered for publication. Winner and finalists will appear in Crab Creek Review. Maggie Smith is the author of three books of poetry: Good Bones (Tupelo Press, September 2017); The Well Speaks of Its Own Poison (Tupelo Press, 2015); and Lamp of the Body (Red Hen Press, 2005). Smith is also the author of three prizewinning chapbooks. Her poems appear in Best American Poetry, theNew York Times, The Paris Review, Ploughshares, The Gettysburg Review, Guernica, Plume, AGNI, Virginia Quarterly Review, and elsewhere. In 2016 her poem “Good Bones” went viral internationally and has been translated into nearly a dozen languages. PRI (Public Radio International) called it “the official poem of 2016.” Smith has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Ohio Arts Council, and the Sustainable Arts Foundation, among others. She lives in Bexley, Ohio, and is a freelance writer and editor. |
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Announcing the 2017 Pushcart Prize Nominees!
Crab Creek Review is pleased to announce our nominees for the 2017 Pushcart Prize. From 2017 Vol.1: Shankar Narayan: “To: CEO@Ancestry.com” Charnell Peters: “An Uncertain Map of How I Got Raced” Jennifer K. Sweeney: “The Pear Trees at Terezin” From 2017 Vol. 2: Carlos Andrés Gómez: “Pronounced” Leyna Krow: “The Razor’s Edge” Diane Seuss: “Self-Portrait with Emily Dickinson (Rebirth of Mourning)” Special Mention to Sanam Mahloudji, whose short story, "Plain White Shoebox" (2017 Vol. 1) was nominated for the PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers. Congratulations, Sanam! Congratulations to poets Jennifer K. Sweeney, Carlos Andrés Gómez, Charnell Peters, Shankar Narayan, Diane Seuss, and writer Leyna Krow. Best of luck to all of the nominees! |
Fall 2017 Issue is here!
Featuring the 2017 Crab Creek Review Poetry Prize winner, finalists, & semi-finalists, and packed with stellar work by Diane Seuss, Keetje Kuipers, Henry Israeli, and many others. We are pleased to include an interview with Rheea Mukherjee (Transit for Beginners) and a review of Tammy Robacker's Villain Songs.
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from Benign, and Other Words for this Kind of Reprieve
by Carolee Bennett:
Translucent means close your eyes.
Tenuous means you will be breathing on your own.
Write this down so you won’t be afraid:
the paralysis is temporary, the impalpable
alter-world nearby the whole time.
This is how it works.
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from Benign, and Other Words for this Kind of Reprieve
by Carolee Bennett:
Translucent means close your eyes.
Tenuous means you will be breathing on your own.
Write this down so you won’t be afraid:
the paralysis is temporary, the impalpable
alter-world nearby the whole time.
This is how it works.
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Fall reading period opens September 15th!
Crab Creek Review open reading period runs September 15 through November 15. We look forward to reading your work. Please see the submission page for guidelines. Crab Creek Review Poetry Prize awarded to Hannah Craig!
2017 Spring issue available now!
The human mind can learn multiple languages in early childhood. No need to wrestle with identity politics too early, just offer your babies the world. By age six a window closes and the mind wants to consolidate. Already we’re taking stock, choosing tribes. I remember my mother’s voice singing a Fairuz lullaby amara ya amara come down from the treetops, little moon. from Lena Khalaf Tuffaha's "America Teaches Me About Myself" The 2016 Fall Issue
from the current issue, a quietly powerful poem by Connie Post:
lavender and fuchsia permeated the morning we were called to breakfast we ate waffles and said nothing of the raging blooms the apologies buried in the ordered way the flowers were arranged (Excerpt from "Gardening", by Connie Post, winner of the 2016 Crab Creek Review Poetry Prize.) Want to read the rest of the poem and the whole brilliant issue? Support great literature by purchasing a copy or subscription today! Congratulations to the 2016 Crab Creek Review Poetry Prize WinnerCrab Creek Review is pleased to announce the winner of the Crab Creek Review Poetry Prize, chosen by Oliver de la Paz.
Hearty congratulations to Connie Post, winner of the 2016 Crab Creek Review Poetry Prize! Connie will be awarded $500, and her poem, "Gardening" will appear in the fall issue of Crab Creek Review. Three finalists were also chosen: "Ode to the Continuously Renamed", by Elizabeth Acevedo; "Desgraciado", by José Angel Araguz; and "Selfie at the End of the World", by Francine Witte. Congratulations to Connie Post, and to each of the finalists. Nearly 900 poems were received for consideration. The editors were impressed with the high quality of all of the submissions, and enjoyed reading through these poems. Thank you to all the poets who entered the competition. Please know your submission fee goes toward paying the winner of the contest, as well as paying for production costs and a small honorarium for the contest judge. Oliver de la Paz had this to say about "Gardening": "I find the quiet and economical power of this poem to be quite profound. But it's not quiet or subtle throughout. The pivotal moment in the sixth stanza which has the protagonists ". . . eating/eating/gorging" is a loud and painful moment in a poem that otherwise seduces the reader into thinking all is well and beautiful. The final two stanzas show the gravity of the wound and the startling image of "pulling petals/out of my body" held me long after I had read the poem." Oliver de la Paz is the author of four collections of poetry, Names Above Houses, Furious Lullaby (SIU Press 2001, 2007), and Requiem for the Orchard (U. of Akron Press 2010), winner of the Akron Prize for poetry chosen by Martìn Espada, and Post Subject: A Fable (U. of Akron Press 2014). He is the co-editor with Stacey Lynn Brown of A Face to Meet the Faces: An Anthology of Contemporary Persona Poetry (U. of Akron Press 2012). He co-chairs the advisory board of Kundiman, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to the promotion of Asian American Poetry and serves on the Association of Writers and Writing Programs Board. A recipient of a NYFA Fellowship Award and a GAP Grant from Artist Trust, his work has appeared in journals like Virginia Quarterly Review, North American Review, Tin House, Chattahoochee Review, and in anthologies such as Asian American Poetry: The Next Generation. He is the music editor for At Length Magazine and he teaches in the MFA program at Western Washington University. |
