The Limberlost Review (2025 Edition)

The 2025 edition of the new Limberlost Review: A Literary Journal of the Mountain West features nearly 500 pages of interview, poetry, stories, essays, artwork and “re-readings” of books we should come back to and why. The edition features work by two Pulitzer Prize winners, several National Book Award winners and finalists, an O. Henry Prize winner, several Pushcart Prize winners, an Iowa Prize winner, several state Poet Laureates, a Fifth Mesa All-Star, an American Book Award winner, several NEA Fellows, and other noteworthy writers and artists. 

This black & white edition is profusely illustrated with photographs, wood and linoleum block prints, drawings, and other mixed-media artwork.

Highlights of the 2025 edition include:

(1) An interview by novelist Judith Freeman with Montana writer and filmmaker Annick Smith

(2) Stories by Gary Gildner, Mitch Wieland, Jeff Fereday, Dan Armstrong, Barbara Olic-Hamilton, and Jay Johnson

(3) Poetry by Clifford Burke, Wendell Berry, Bonnie Jo Campbell, Robert Wrigley, Edward Harknes, Tom Rea, Charlotte Mears, Howard Levy, Ken Rodgers, Samuel Green, Margaret Koger, Mark Gibbons, Georgia Tiffany, O. Alan Weltzien, Greg Keeler, Florence K. Blanchard, Bob Bushnell, Ted Kooser, Tim Barnes, Brian Olson, Gary Short, Sally Green, Rebecca Evans, Michael Daley, Gino Sky, Joe Wilkins, Sherman Alexie, Edward Sanders, Bruce Embree, and Gary Snyder

(4) Essays/memoirs by Annick Smith, Shaun T. Griffin, Gary Thompson, Howard Levy, Teresa Jordan, Rae Lewis, Paul Beebe, Ron McFarland, Jett Whitehead, and Don Zancanella.

(5) Re-readings of favorite work by Norman Maclean, Jimmy Breslin, Ivan Doig, John Clare, Sir Thomas Wyatt, John Clellon Holmes, Wyndham Lewis, Richard McKenna, Gino Sky, Nick Hornby written by Jim Hepworth, Marc C. Johnson, Adam M. Sowards, Kurt Caswell, Baron Wormser, Davis Kuebeck, Alan Minskoff, Ted Dyer, Grove Koger, John Hoopes, and Gary Soto.

(6) Artwork by Rod Burks, Bryan Chernick, Katherine Jones, Greg Keeler, Glenn Oakley, Riley Sophia Penaluna, Betty Rodgers, Edward Sanders, Brad Teare, Randy Van Dyck, and Janet Wormser--artists who make the entire edition so much more readable.

(7) And a “Last Word” by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Gary Snyder.