In these nine brilliant stories, love and marriage are examined and reexamined from a variety of perspectives, all provocative, all troubling. A teacher falls in love with her student, a sister dance
Emily Perez’s House of Sugar, House of Stone weaves Grimm’s Fairy Tales into the business of modern life—laptops and late nights with sleepless children—to explore an undercurrent of terror about livi
Published by the Center for Literary Publishing at Colorado State University Winner of the 2016 Colorado Prize for Poetry Selected by Tyrone Williams for the 2016 Colorado Prize for Poetry, Exit Theat
Selected from the country’s leading literary journals and publications—Colorado Review, Creative Nonfiction, Georgia Review, Prairie Schooner, Crazyhorse, The Norm
Invoking spiders and senators, physicists and aliens, Lauren Haldeman’s second book, Instead of Dying, decodes the world of death with a powerful mix of humor, epiphany, and agonizing grief. In the sp
From the moment of a marriage’s heated inception to its period of luminous crowding and onward into distance and darkness, Bonnie Arning’s Escape Velocity asks if it’s possible to exist outside the on
Published by the Center for Literary Publishing at Colorado State University Mountain West Poetry Series In his first collection of poems, &luckier, Christopher J Johnson explores the depths to whic
In The Owl Was a Baker’s Daughter, Gillian Cummings gives voice to her version of Ophelia, a young woman shattered by unbearable losses, and questions what makes a mind unwind till the outcome i
Winner of the 2008 Colorado Prize for PoetryPublished by the Center for Literary Publishing at Colorado State University“Endi Bogue Hartigan's poems are enveloping: one is immersed in experiences of i
"Rob Schlegel has a mind of winter. Like the painter Morandi, who gave him the courage to look at almost nothing for a very long time, Schlegel makes a world of absence and deprivation--our world, the
Furthest Ecology takes up the life and labor of Abbott Thayer, the prickly, irrepressible American painter and naturalist nicknamed “the father of camouflage.” In 1896, Thayer discovered c
