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Unguided Girlhood: A Review of "The Blurry Years" by Eleanor Kriseman

October 23, 2018 | blog, book reviews
By Christine McSwain The Blurry YearsBy Eleanor Kriseman160 pp. Two Dollar Radio, $15.99 In The Blurry Years, Eleanor Kriseman depicts the particularly tumultuous but ultimately universal growing pains of Callie, a bright young girl living in Florida with her flighty, alcoholic mother. Against a rotating backdrop of run-down motel rooms, the homes of short-term boyfriends,...

Piecing it Together: Review of "Because: A Lyric Memoir" by Joshua Mensch

September 18, 2018 | book reviews, news
By John L. Byrne Because: A Lyric Memoir By Joshua Mensch 144 pp. W.W. Norton & Company, $22.95 At once a personal account of actual events and a lyric journey through the formative years of a young boy, Joshua Mensch’s lyric memoir, Because, unfolds a tale about the impact of childhood sexual and psychological abuse....

Hadara Bar-Nadav on the Beauty of Ambiguity

April 18, 2018 | news, readings
On Thursday, April 12th, poet Hadara Bar-Nadav gave the final Crazyhorse reading of the 2017-2018 school year. Second-year MFA candidate Catherine McCullough introduced her, saying that Bar-Nadav’s latest collection, The New Nudity, “is a captivating range of everyday objects.” She continued to say, “what struck me the most was the fantastic sound quality of her...

The Art of Translation: A Conversation with Poetry Translations Editor, Scott Minar

March 28, 2018 | interviews, news
A Conversation with Crazyhorse Poetry Translations Editor, Scott Minar and MFA ’18 Poetry student Angela Pilson When and how did you first become interested in translations? That’s a difficult question for me because I think I’ve always been interested in them. I grew up in a bilingual neighborhood in Cleveland and my household was bilingual–Italian and English....

Christine Schutt: Learning What You Do Well

February 7, 2018 | news, readings
By John L. Byrne (Poetry ’19) and Emma Stough (Fiction ’19) On the night of Thursday, February 1st, author Christine Schutt gave the third Crazyhorse reading of the academic year. Schutt was greeted on campus with a mild evening, something of a rarity for winter months here in Charleston. First-year fiction student in the College...

An Evening with Donika Kelly

November 21, 2017 | news, readings
By John L. Byrne (Poetry ’19) and Emma Stough (Fiction ’19) The cold, rainy conditions on Thursday, November 9th couldn’t keep students, faculty, and fans of poetry from flocking to the EHHP Alumni Center to hear a reading by poet Donika Kelly. A teacher at St. Bonaventure’s College in upstate New York, Kelly recently published...

Scott Gould: Writing What You Know Well Enough to Lie About

November 21, 2017 | news, readings
By John L. Byrne (Poetry ’19) and Emma Stough (Fiction ’19) On Thursday, October 26th, author Scott Gould visited the College of Charleston for the 2017 Crazyhorse Reading Series. Bret Lott, Professor and Director of the M.F.A. Program in Creative Writing and nonfiction editor of Crazyhorse, introduced Scott. The two authors have a long history...

Dana Levin: Crazyhorse Reading

April 18, 2017 | news, readings
With a mane of wavy, silver blonde hair framing her smiling face, Dana Levin stands in front of a crowd at Randolph Hall, lifts her phone to take a picture, and says, “One, two, three, Poetry!” She immediately puts her audience at ease and seems to relax into herself as she explains that her latest...

Rebecca Makkai: Searching for Truth in Reality TV

March 21, 2017 | news, readings
Chicago-based author and 2017 Pushcart Prize winner Rebecca Makkai visited The College of Charleston campus Thursday, March 16, as part of the Crazyhorse Reading Series. Her stories have appeared in Ploughshares, Harper’s, and Tin House. She was introduced by Professor and Crazyhorse Fiction Editor Anthony Varallo. “I first became aware of Rebecca’s writing after reading...

T. Geronimo Johnson Reads from Braggsville

March 14, 2017 | news, readings
Standing at the podium in Randolph Hall, T. Geronimo Johnson reads the first chapter of his most recent novel, Welcome to Braggsville. Johnson forgoes the microphone, his voice resounding throughout the room. When he finishes, he tells the audience, “I want to thank you for not laughing at that first part.” The start of the novel...

Shelley Wong, Pushcart Prize

November 17, 2016 | news
Congratulations to Shelley Wong, 2017 Pushcart Prize winner for her poem “The Spring Forecast,” which was recently published in the Pushcart Prize XLI Best of the Small Presses anthology. Shelley’s work was nominated by Emily Rosko, Raena Shirali, and Michael Marberry and first appeared in Crazyhorse issue no. 88.  Additionally, a Pushcart Special Mention goes to Erika Krouse for...

Congratulations to Dana Fitz Gale

November 10, 2016 | news
Crazyhorse is thrilled to congratulate past contributor Dana Fitz Gale, on her book Spells for Victory and Courage, winner of the Brighthorse Books award. Her short story collection includes “Jester,” originally published in issue no. 84. The story is about “a clown…a strange one, with a moth-pale face and smeary, charcoal eyes” who picks on the wrong...