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Stephanie Burt & Carmen Giménez Smith: Questions for Consideration

April 13, 2020 | blog, news
Ivy Keller (Poetry, ’21) As part of its annual reading series, Crazyhorse welcomed esteemed poets and co-editors of The Nation’s poetry section, Carmen Giménez Smith and Stephanie Burt on February 27. Giménez Smith and Burt each read a selection their work and held a joint Q&A session at the College of Charleston. First-year MFA poetry...

Landon Houle's Living Things

November 13, 2019 | blog, book reviews
By Matt Manco Living ThingsBy Landon Houle232 pp. Red Hen Press. $16.95 Black Creek, South Carolina, its residents believe, is the type of town people come to because bad things don’t happen there. But when a young woman is found dead in the creek, that belief is challenged. Landon Houle’s debut novel, Living Things, guides...

The Moment, the Memory: Review of Alison Rollins's "Library of Small Catastrophes"

October 29, 2019 | blog, book reviews
By Dakota Reed Library of Small CatastrophesBy Alison C. Rollins93 pp. Copper Canyon Press. $16.00 Alison Rollins’s debut collection of poetry serves as a sharp examination of womanhood and blackness, one that deals with such complex and multi-faceted components by inviting you into the figurative library she has created within her poems. Readers are granted...

Sabrina Orah Mark: Writing in the Surreal

October 24, 2019 | blog, news
Lauren Cortese (Fiction, ’21) and Samantha Watson (Fiction, ’21) Writer Sabrina Orah Mark shared her work at the College of Charleston on Thursday, October 17th. Second-year MFA fiction student Matt Manco introduced Mark. He described the “creation, anxiety, bravery, history, and persistence” that meet and form her “works of condensed brilliance.” Manco highlighted the surreal...

New Wave, New Girl: A Review of "Sea Monsters" by Chloe Aridjis

October 22, 2019 | blog, book reviews
By Ren Jones Sea MonstersBy Chloe Aridjis130 pp. Catapult. $23.00 Sea Monsters by Chloe Aridjis is, above all else, a tale of teenage disillusionment. With its plot woven between a New Wave rendition of Mexico City and the mythically charged seaside town of Zipolite, Sea Monsters follows Luisa—a seventeen-year-old girl whose personality exudes a Siouxsie...

Oliver de la Paz: Navigating Unspoken Worlds

October 3, 2019 | blog, news
By Joshua Garcia (Poetry ’21) and Dakota Reed (Poetry ’20) On Thursday, September 26th, visiting poet Oliver de la Paz read from his new book, The Boy in the Labyrinth, at the College of Charleston for the first Crazyhorse reading of the academic year. Second year poetry MFA student Gardner Dorton, who introduced de la...

Navigating Reality: Review of Molly Reid’s "The Rapture Index: A Suburban Bestiary"

September 24, 2019 | blog, book reviews
By Grace Timko The Rapture Index: A Suburban BestiaryBy Molly Reid220 pp. BOA Editions. $17.00 The stories in Molly Reid’s debut collection, The Rapture Index: A Suburban Bestiary, resonate with readers through an overarching sense of nostalgia and moments of discomfort. Reid has the distinct ability to navigate dualities—the real and fabulist—both in theme and in style....

Jen Julian on Otherworldly Light

April 2, 2019 | blog, news
By Grace Timko (Fiction ’20) and Rosie Mary Jane Kopman (Fiction ’20) On Thursday, March 7th, Jen Julian read from her newly published short story collection, Earthly Delights and Other Apocalypses, for the fourth and final installment of the 2018-19 Crazyhorse Reading Series. Second year fiction student Christine McSwain delivered the introduction: “In Jen Julian’s work,...

Jennifer Chang: Closing the Distance

February 28, 2019 | blog, news
By Katelin McLaren (Poetry ’20) and Dakota Reed (Poetry ’20) On Thursday, February 21st, visiting poet Jennifer Chang read from her book Some Say the Lark for the third Crazyhorse reading of the academic year. First year poetry student Kat Smolinsky introduced Chang by inviting the audience to “come together to listen to and affirm...

The Fearful Beauty of 'Anything': Review of Lee Martin's "The Mutual UFO Network"

November 29, 2018 | blog, book reviews
By Emma Stough The Mutual UFO NetworkBy Lee Martin300 pp. Dzanc Books. $26.95 The legion of characters populating Lee Martin’s forthcoming collection The Mutual UFO Network cause a reader to question humanity’s place among the stars and planets. Martin favors the wanderers—those navigating the untidy shambles of lost love, of families cracked and broken apart, of past and...

Venita Blackburn: Writing the Story that Scares You

November 27, 2018 | blog, news
By Grace Timko (Fiction ’20) and Rosie Mary Jane Kopman (Fiction ’20) On Thursday, November 15th, Venita Blackburn read from her newly published short story collection, Black Jesus and Other Superheroes, for the last of the 2018 Crazyhorse readings. First year fiction student in the College of Charleston MFA program, Rosie Mary Jane Kopman, introduced Blackburn by speaking...

Mary Biddinger: Adapting Experience

November 7, 2018 | blog, news
By Dakota Reed and Katelin McLaren (Poetry ’20) On Thursday, October 25th, poet Mary Biddinger gave the first Crazyhorse reading of the academic year. The timing felt fitting. Only days before Halloween, Biddinger joked about being a witch and described the “witchy-ness” and magical elements that contribute to compiling a book of poetry. Second year...