To snuff it out on the drive back, Garry took a few too many squeezies. Thought he measured right, discovered he did not, the heat coming into his face in a fine way, the road smooth and languorous in a…
The Winners of the 2022 Print Contest
Columbia Journal is excited to announce the winners and finalists of our 2022 Print Contest, which was judged by Jonathan Escoffery, Qian Julie Wang, Diana Khoi Nguyen, and Valzhyna Mort. […]
On Translating the World’s First Author: A Conversation with Sophus Helle
“What would the history of literature look like if it began, not with Homer and his war-hungry heroes, but with a woman from ancient Iraq, who sang her hymns to […]
2023 Columbia Journal Online Contest
2023 Columbia Journal Online Contest – Submissions Open from March 1 to March 15, 2022 The Columbia Journal is delighted to announce that the 2023 Online Contest will accept submissions […]
Errands
Today at work I walked in on Sarah in the work bathroom adjusting her outfit in the full-length mirror, she jumped when I opened the door. I found myself thinking […]
Two Poems
Lindsay Turner is the author of the poetry collections The Upstate (University of Chicago Press, forthcoming) and Songs & Ballads (Prelude, 2018). She translates contemporary Francophone poetry and philosophy and is Assistant Professor of English […]
Inherited Tears
I cried while sitting on the toilet the other day. It’s not what you think, I promise. The culprit was not a sour taste of spoiled food or night of drinking […]
Remembering Rocket Boys: A Conversation with Homer Hickam
What does it take to achieve our childhood dreams? What do our ambitions teach us about ourselves? Since its publication in 1998, Homer Hickam’s coming-of-age memoir Rocket Boys, about the […]
Call Me By My True Names – the Collected Poems of Thich Nhat Hanh
A Review of the Monk’s Work, Teachings, and Legacy 1 Year After His Death Known for his teachings on Buddhism and how to bring mindfulness—the idea of being aware of […]
Women’s Talk
The woman, in order to have sex with her husband, had to write it all out after it happened. When they were young, before the kids, and they had sex […]
From the Archives: Whose coat is that jacket? Whose hat is that cap?
If you’re truly bilingual it’s not that there are two languages in your world, but that not everybody understands the whole of your own personal speech. Welsh is my first […]
Nothing
Cheyenne and I are in her bathroom applying our makeup under the drop lights her dad got for cheap. It’s her very own half bath with double sinks so we […]