From the Print Issue: Boy
Dawn Potter
This was in the old days, the 1970s, when some people visited uncles in California and other people were stuck with uncles from Pittsburgh. Liberace was the closest thing to a drag queen on TV, unless you counted Joe Namath in his fur coat.
Three Poems
Izzy Knapp
roving gravestones for pigsight
the way bells sounded then
but here we lie approximate
From the Print Issue: Body Mass
Jon Conley
They exited their cars at the same time and proceeded to pile onto each other. The pile-up grew in size, becoming sphere-like. Due to the lack of knowledge about the body mass’ density, authorities are unsure of the exact body count.
Fiction: Fingers on the Pulse
Stella Corso
Later, we headed to a gallery show featuring an immersive performance by Osama Bin Laden’s youngest son, who had become a popular durational artist in the downtown scene.
Stay in the Trouble: An Interview with Craig Santos Perez
Echoing throughout Colby College’s Coburn Library on April 2, 2026 are the voices of Craig Santos Perez, Professor Peckham, and myself as I moderate a conversation that meanders through the liminal spaces of documentary poetics, archival responsibility, and the ambiguous intimacies between personal memory and colonial record.
editor’s note: spring 2026
Welcome to the first print issue of The Colby Review, a magazine of new writing published by the Creative Writing Program at Colby College, here in Waterville, Maine, approximately 3,200 miles north of the equator and about 3,500 miles west of the prime meridian, depending how you calculate.