SubscribeTrigger, Before I Left Oregon
Don’t be fooled by these poems. You might feel familiar ground in Rachel Mehl’s verse, especially her narratives, but don’t be surprised when her perfectly chosen details shake everything apart.
The Consecration of the House, Hermitage
Heffernan is comfortable letting his reader feel more detached in a poem experience but can quickly ground them again. As though a wave of light passing thought space, the reader, in repeat, rises to meet concrete detail in Heffernan’s work, then descends to the abstract.
5 Reasons Why the New Creative Nonfiction Kicks Ass
New from Crowd, we present the first of a series of custom designed, creatively written, reviews. At about the time we began conceptualizing Crowd‘s sophomore issue, Creative Nonfiction, the preeminent nonfiction magazine in the country, came out with a new design and new content. We were blown away.
Meet the Authors from Issue 2
We thought our first issue would be hard to beat. But, because of the great writing of the authors featured in our second issue we are once again excited about this issue and pleased to introduce them to you. If you haven’t yet, make sure to check out Rachel’s impressive style and Michael’s ability to draw you in.
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A lot of people talk about the best books ever, but I’m often wishing that many of the authors I respect were represented on these lists a little better. So, I thought I’d put together a little a list of books that I’ll always remember; and that you, when I die, will have to rip from my cold, dead fingers.
Editor as the New Artist?
Today, I was reading the latest issue of Hayden’s Ferry Review when I realized that it’s very diverse collection of literary artifacts represents the large fragmentary nature of litery styles in contemporary writing. Their have always been a wide range of literary styles being published at any point in history, but I’m talking about a new ultra-fragmented group of styles, a net size never thrown before. The poems and prose selected by the editors at HFR exemplify this hyper-mode art.
Meet the Authors from Our First Issue
Crowd launched it’s first online issue February 6th and we have had a great response to it thus far, in large part due to the awesome writers whose prose and poetry are featured. We wanted to take a few minutes to introduce them to you and if you haven’t yet read their works please do so, let us know what you think and give them props for their fabulous writing!
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Welcome to Crowd, a new, kickass online literary journal. We are searching for great new writing.
Crowd looks to help legitimize online literary publishing, which has, unfortunately we believe, been stewing in a mess of poor web design and clichés that hasn’t successfully engaged writers and readers intellectually. We are also convinced that there are not many public, wide-reaching forums of criticism for new writers, which is why we will be publishing short criticism and seeking the opinions of authors and readers.
We love literature that doesn’t value, as Robert Stewart, the editor of New Letters, puts it: “cleverness, smugness, in-consequence.” We want art with serious purpose.
We are working hard to build our web site and journal and we would be thrilled if you could join the excitement. Please consider sending Crowd a poem or piece of short prose for our upcoming issues.
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