Our Spring Break Reads
Christina Glessner | Managing Editor Jill Dehnert | Associate Editor Lucy Burns | Poetry Editor Michael Noltemeyer | Fiction Editor Diana Filar | Graduate Reader
Blue Mesa Review
Our Favorite Love Lit
Happy Valentine’s Day! Ben Dolan, Editor-in-Chief Romantic Moment By Tony Hoagland After the nature documentary we walk down, into the plaza of art galleries and high end clothing stores where the mock orange is fragrant in the summer night… Continue Reading
Weekend Reads from the BMR Staff
Christina Glessner, Managing Editor: Chicano Culture, Ecology, Politics edited by Devon G. Peña Jill Dehnert, Associate Editor: Warlock by Oakley Hall Sarah Sheesley, Nonfiction Editor: 2666 by Roberto Bolaño Lucy Burns, Poetry Editor: The Lost Lunar Baedeker… Continue Reading
2013: Year In Reading
All of our editors have put together a list of their favorite reads of 2013. Some are new, some old, some obscure, others classics that were revisited. We love end of year lists, and here is ours. Here’s to a… Continue Reading
Former Associate Editor, Nick DePascal, Wins First Book Prize
We are SO EXCITED for and incredibly proud of our former Associate Editor, Nick DePascal, who won the West End Press Poetry Prize. We couldn’t say it better, so here are the details straight from the horse’s (read Press Release‘s)… Continue Reading
Now Open for General and Expedited Submission
Today is the day! We are now officially open for General and Expedited Submissions and we can not wait to read your work! Go to our website or Submittable for more details. Also, be on the lookout for our Contest… Continue Reading
4 Excuses to Forget Your Reading List on Your Summer Roadtrip
I just returned from a long road trip through California and I didn’t finish a single book or write more than a couple notes. I call myself a writer, so it’s extra embarrassing that I spent more than twenty hours… Continue Reading
Issue 27 – Letter From The Editor
Pictured above from top left: Katie Pelletier – Fiction Editor, Nick Depascal – Associate Editor, Natalie Scenters-Zapico – Managing Editor, bottom left: Laurel Coffey – Fiction Editor, Nora Hickey – Editor in Chief, Bonnie Arning – Poetry Editor Dear Readers,… Continue Reading
Meet the Judges for Our Contest 2013!
We are so excited to announce our judges for this year’s contest in Fiction and Poetry! Judging fiction is Sherman Alexie! Sherman Alexie has been awarded many honors, such as a PEN/Faulkner Award for War Dances, a National Book Award… Continue Reading
A Conversation with Michael Dickman
10 Questions for Michael Dickman *Originally published for Blue Mesa Review Issue 24.5 | Spring 2012 Interview by Nora Hickey When Michael Dickman read recently at Muse Times Two, a poetry series in Santa Fe, he held a room… Continue Reading