If you’ve read the past few blog posts (and you should!), you’ve heard a similar message from each of my fellow editors about what they hope to publish in the coming year: Steve, our EIC, wrote about finding new and… Continue Reading
This time last year, after taking the helm as Fiction Editor, I wrote what I wanted to do, see, and accomplish with my year navigating The Blue Mesa Review. I was eager, excited, and ready to sail into uncharted literary… Continue Reading
I had a dream last night. My soccer team––well, football, ‘cause we use our feet, and I’m in Spain––were playing in an international tournament in Tarragona. In the morning, much like Iceland, our team, the scrappy underdog, beat the favorite,… Continue Reading
Sorry for the radio silence. The BMR crew all went into hibernation over the holiday, which really isn’t what you might think. We were reading, writing, planning, and resting up for a new semester which is now in full swing.… Continue Reading
In the Guardian’s July 2 article, “Hearing words, writing sounds: examining the author’s brain,“ writer Richard Lea discusses a study at Johns Hopkins that examines regions of the brain utilized to produce and interpret speech and the written word… Continue Reading
I begin my last year as an MFA student at The University of New Mexico in about two weeks. At the start I came into it with an open mind as to what I would write about for the… Continue Reading
So you’re a writer, eh? You took every CRW class listed during undergrad—even won a couple hundred bucks in a University-wide fiction contest once upon a time. Yet still, unfathomably, Harper’s won’t return your calls and The New Yorker thinks… Continue Reading
“Had we but world enough, and time,” begins Andrew Marvell’s famous poem “To His Coy Mistress.” The poem, which takes the form of a persuasive argument, is a clever bid for hastening the physical consummation of the courtship between the speaker of… Continue Reading
It is with great pleasure that we have the opportunity to announce our 2014 Poetry Contest Winners. Poetry judge Carmen Giménez Smith has selected the following poems: 1st Place: “Half-Elegy for My Mother’s Voice” by Sara Borjas “This is a classic elegy… Continue Reading
Full disclosure: Nick DePascal is a recent graduate of the University of New Mexico’s creative writing MFA, through which the Blue Mesa Review is also produced. That being said, if you look for his debut collection of poetry Before You… Continue Reading