#4: Poetry by Lenny DellaRocca
SEEING ELVIS Some folks see Jesus in a stormy sky.A woman in Vicksburg, Michigansaw Elvis in a grocery store. The cook at Tammy’s Luncheonettetwirls his…
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#3: Nonfiction by Ellie Zumbach
A LIGHT IN THE BARN And on the eighth day, God looked down on His planned paradise and said,“I need a caretaker.” So God made…
Weekly Favorites: “Sweet Rotten” by Jen Michalski
Jen Michalski is one of those people who knows everyone else in the literary community. She is one of the kindest, most thoughtful among our…
#1: Poetry by Rebecca Pyle
BECAUSE I DID NOT HAVE Because I did not have, I had more,Had a horse who could turn six waysInstead of stare, a house wonderfully…
Weekly Favorites: Rafe Posey Reviews Narcopolis by Jeet Thayil
Rafe Posey, one of Cobalt’s founders and its first fiction editor, has been writing book reviews since 1989, when he found himself admiring a photo…
Weekly Favorites: “The Last Original Guitar Riff in G” by Tom Williams
Here’s one of the snazziest stand-alone pieces we’ve published. Thanks to the great Tom Williams, who first came to Cobalt through the Four Fathers collection…
Weekly Favorites: Victor LaValle, the Cobalt Interview
(Photo: Teddy Wolff, via Guernica) Victor LaValle is the author of a short-story collection, Slapboxing with Jesus, four novels, The Ecstatic, Big Machine, The Devil…
Weekly Favorites: “Moles” by Timmy Reed
I can’t not love this short story by Timmy Reed. Over the past 7+ years, I’ve pointed to this as an example of the type…
Cobalt Review: Issue 21
And now it’s time…to say… Well, it’s not really goodbye. It’s just the last standard issue of Cobalt Review. With the launch of the Cobalt…
Publisher’s Note: Introducing the Cobalt Weekly
Greetings! It has been a wild eight years. We’ve published twenty online issues, six baseball issues, four print volumes, interviews with dozens of authors, and…
