Ekphrastic Poetry and Student Involvement
The following lines are part of a poem that I wrote in collaboration with a photograph found in the UNM Art Museum “Luz Restirada” exhibit. This is what longing… Continue Reading
Poetry
Our Favorite Lines of Poetry
A couple of weeks ago Book Riot posted a blog full of their favorite sentences. Inspired by their post, we decided to put together our favorite lines of poetry. These are lines that woke us up, rolled around in our heads, and… Continue Reading
Our 2014 Summer Contest is Open!
Today is the big day! June 1st – the opening of Blue Mesa Review’s Annual Writing Contest. Submit your best fiction and poetry all the way through August 31st. For more details, see the contest portion of our website.… Continue Reading
2014 Summer Contest
We are so happy to announce the judges for the 2014 Summer Contest in Fiction and Poetry. This year, the fiction judge will be Roxane Gay! Roxane Gay is the author of a novel, An Untamed State, which was published… Continue Reading
An Interview with Hakim Bellamy
Photo Credit: Mikhayla Harrell Hakim Bellamy became the inaugural poet laureate of Albuquerque on April 14th, 2012. Bellamy has been on two national champion poetry slam teams and has been published in numerous anthologies and on inner-city buses. A musician,… Continue Reading
AWP 2014: A Review
We had a great time at AWP in Seattle. See you next year Minneapolis! Here is a list of some of our favorite events: Ben Dolan | Editor-in-Chief: Image Journal‘s 25th Anniversary Reading I’d already heard poet Scott Cairns read… Continue Reading
Alan Shapiro’s Night of the Republic: A Review
Alan Shapiro’s book of poetry, Night of the Republic (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012), offers the reader a bleak view into a moonlit territory of despair, but without succumbing to the pitfalls of melancholy, self-pity, or maudlin navel-gazing. It’s fueled with wit… Continue Reading
Weekend Reads from the BMR Staff
Ben Dolan, Editor-in-Chief: Columbine by Dave Cullen Christina Glessner, Managing Editor: Kenyon Review‘s Winter 2014 Issue (Volume XXXVI, Number 1) Jill Dehnert, Associate Editor: Cutting Teeth by Julia Fierro (forthcoming in May, St. Martin’s Press) Sarah Sheesley,… 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