Department of English

Professor Carol Ann Davis and Meghan Lee
"We like poems that change the light in the room in which we are reading."  And with that, Meghan Lee began her summer at Crazyhorse.  As her mentor, I had asked her to read all issues of the magazine edited here at the College and come up with a statement of editorial intent.  The above sentence was the first of a long manifesto-like list of things that I hope are true about the magazine.  Meghan's insights, just in her statement of editorial intent, showed me how deeply she read poetry, and what she expected of it (the world!).  It was therefore inspiring and exciting to spend the summer discussing with her the poems that came in "over the transom" as unsolicited manuscripts.  She would read them and decide whether the editors should reject a poem or give it further consideration, and then we would discuss the decision the editors had made in the end.  In this way we hope she learned something about how a poem makes a case for itself, how it ends up on the pages of a magazine.  In the spring, she will travel to the Associated Writing Programs annual conference in Atlanta, GA, and present the issue she read for over the summer.

College of Charleston | Department of English - Main | Contact the Webmaster | Page last modified: Thursday, November 01, 2007