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Long River Review
Long River Review

UConn's Literary & Arts Magazine

Month: April 2011

Long River Review Is…

LRR, April 26, 2011February 8, 2025

Check out our new video, Long River Review Is, and don’t forget to come to the release party.  It’s April 28th, at 6 pm in the UConn Co-op.   Long River Review Is…

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Interview with Jeffrey O.G. Ogbar (2011)

admin, April 15, 2011March 5, 2024

Q: If one comes across a vulgar word in a poem, it makes a powerful statement. In hip-hop, vulgarity is used so frequently that it essentially loses its “punch” and can do little but fill space. Would you say that vulgarity helps or hinders the message of hip-hop songs? Certainly…

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Interview with Tom Hubbard (2011)

admin, April 15, 2011March 5, 2024

The University of Connecticut has hosted many writers-in-residence and visiting professors over the years, and the rewards are always great for students within and outside of the English major. These writers enrich the experience of students and give a good example of what a career in writing might look like….

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Beginning the Epic: A Profile of Ellen Litman (2011)

admin, April 15, 2011March 5, 2024

Ellen Litman, author of The Last Chicken in America, shares how she began writing and the creative process behind her first fiction. You’re reading a chapter from 1984 and suddenly a brilliant idea pops into your head. Should you write it down? So you make your way over to the…

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Interview with Joe Welch, Editor-in-Chief of LRR (2011)

admin, April 4, 2011March 5, 2024

LRR:  At what age did you start writing? Why? Three or four years old, preschool age. There was a marathon on TV with alternating episodes of Bewitched and I Dream of Jeannie, and the theme was a contest or debate deciding which was best. Apparently this was so inspirational I…

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Playing the World, with Mythology as a Guide: A Profile of Roger Travis (2011)

admin, April 4, 2011March 5, 2024

Shoulder to shoulder with my comrades, I stare down the entity that could very well be the cause of my death. A flood of enemies rushes towards us and I grip my weapon in anticipation for the inevitable slaughter, whether it be us or them. The only question left now…

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Interview with Diane Smith, Joseph Michael Owens, and Annam Manthiram, editors of “Grey Sparrow” (2011)

admin, April 4, 2011February 8, 2021

1.  Universities and presses back several magazines, but this does not appear to be the case with Grey Sparrow.  Where do you receive your funding? Diane Smith: I personally fund Grey Sparrow from a modest savings I established during my tenure as a social worker in child welfare.  Grey Sparrow…

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Interview with Alyssa Palazzo (2011)

admin, April 4, 2011June 16, 2017

Palazzo is a creative non-fiction panelist for the Long River Review. Q: You write poetry, creative non-fiction, and fiction. What appeals to you about writing in the poetic form? In the prose form? A lot of what I enjoy about form and content overlaps between prose and poetry.  When writing…

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