the Review
 
  Our current issue - Number 33, Spring 2008
       
 

 
Editorial Comment Highlights
 
Inside issue #32 you'll find our poetry and fiction winners fromt he 2007 contest. Congratulations to all the winners, and if you didn't win, don't despair, try again. You'll earn a subscription for sure, and there's nothing like a contest deadline to make you finish the piece you're working on.

This year Orca Book Publishers is launching Naming the Baby to celebrate the best writing from the first thirty issues of The Claremont Review. Naming the Baby is an outstanding collection featuring the poetry and fiction of some of the most talented adolescent writers of the last fifteen years, manyof whom have gone on to careers in writing and whose novels and poems now grace bookshelves across the continent.


Is it important to publish? Yes. When your best friend says, hey, that's a great poem or wow, what a neat story, you feel a certain amount of pride, but when your work gets accepted by a neutral party, say by one of the crusty editors of The Claremont Review, that recognition may be all you need to keep going. Writing takes work. It takes courage, too. We appreciate that courage and we'll do our best to make sure your writing gets the recognition it deserves.

 

“Truth is I'm a wrist-twisting good time / full of tongue-splitting ecstasies and pavement-tasting tendencies"


Grin, by Courtney Mahrt

       
Table of Contents
 
cover art: Backseat Memories by Natalie Woods
poetry
 

Laura Cok

Stones
Josh Evans

The Kite Boys

  How to Live
  Windsocks
Joan Bedinger Coyotes
Julia Kopplin Craving Catastrophe
  Headlines
Elysia Toporowski The Complexities of a Drowning Man
  I think ten gallons is too much for you, sir.
  Old Enough
  Lights
Krista Murchison Who My Brother Might Play in A Midsummer Night's Dream
  ]
Kristen Marsh My Grandmother the Thief
Davy Preston Knittle Girl in the Rothko Market
Aleesha Cheta Inshallah
Terry Kho Sotto Voce
  House of Mirrors
  Solstice
Jennifer Klauninger Watching My Mother
Christin Schwarzhoff Feather Boa
Nikki Starrett Cobblestones
  Hayride
  Blueberry Picking, and Other Thoughts
Maggie Reagan Senioritis
Grace Yang When My Mother Livd on Earth
Ting Gou Flapping of the Tail
York Brodoff Atkin Epitaph
Stephanie McBride Cigarette Smoke
  By February
Devon Goodman You is Me in the Pantry
Kelsey Harbord Playing Dolls
  Bergen-Belsen
  Anger Management Class
Kaitlyn Placsko Sinclair and I Sitting on the Front Porch at Midnight
Emily Yoon Accident
  Asian
  Flies
Jake McCloskey Moving Out
  The Promise
Sarah Megan Porter Autumn (Proposal)
  Solarize
Gillian Harper After the Earthquake
  Before the House Burned Down
Jane Jiang Poet, Tell
  Downtown, Freeway, Pass Lane
Jayne Hammond After Dinner, at Grandma's
  Night Caps
  Stranded in a Small Town
Daniella Loggia If Dogs Could Scold
  Tea Party with the Dead
  Salad Days
   
fiction  
Josh Weed Bob Can Hope
Anna Siegert Wild Romance
  S.H.I.T.
Elizabeth Comuzzi He Never Broke My Heart
Kristal Kordich-Crandall Words We Spilt
Angharad Wylie Better Off
Kailey Metcalfe Dragonflies and Dust
David Solomon It Shouldn't Be As Bad
Ottilie Short My Father Sleeping
Olivia Whittick The Spider
Courtney Mahrt Weight
   
visual arts  
Allie Simpson Allie Drawing
Natalie Woods Farmyard Love
Sarah Donaldson Islander's Secret
  A Simple Dance
   
miscellaneous  
Ting Gou Lights! Lights! O the Lights and the Lies!
Kim Lucas Interview with Carla Funk