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BOONE, North Carolina — Cold Mountain Exam (CMR)Appalachian State University’s oldest continuing publication and one of the nation’s oldest scholarly literary journals, turns 50 in 2022.
Published annually by App State’s English Department, CMR publishes work that draws on and attempts to engage with eco-justice and social justice issues and experiences. The journal welcomes work from established and unpublished contributors from all backgrounds and identities, including those who have been historically underrepresented by the traditional publishing industry.
Since its inception, the journal has undergone many changes, including a conversion from a print to an online format in 2020 to save resources and help reduce the university’s carbon footprint.
Earlier this year, CMR launched Cold Mountain Press – a new wing that will produce one prose book and one poetry book a year across the Cold Mountain Press Book Contest. In May, CMR published volume 50, the 2022 Special Issue on Identitywhich featured book review, creative non-fiction, fiction, interviews, poetry and visual art from a diverse collection of creators.
RMC was founded in 1972 by Rod “RT” Smith ’75, an English Department alumnus and 2016-17 award recipient College of Arts and Sciences Outstanding Alumni Award, in collaboration with his acolytes Donald Secreast ’72, Jo Anne Eskridge and Charles Frazier ’75. The journal was named after Gary Snyder’s translations of poems by the Chinese poet Han-Shan, whose name, in English, means “Cold Mountain”.
Today, CMR remains a collaborative effort, co-edited by the Associate Professor in the Department of English Mark Powell and speaker Katy Abramswith graduate assistant Jessie Gada ’19, of Mooresville, as associate editor and associate professor of the journal Zackary Vernon serving as a non-fiction editor.
For more information about CMR, including how to submit work electronically for the 2023 issue of the journal, visit coldmountainreview.org.
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As the Southeast’s premier public undergraduate institution, Appalachian State University prepares students to live meaningful lives as global citizens who understand and take responsibility for creating a sustainable future for all. The Appalachian Experience promotes a spirit of inclusion that brings people together in inspiring ways to gain and create knowledge, to grow holistically, to act with passion and purpose, and to embrace diversity and difference. Located in the Blue Ridge Mountains, Appalachian is one of 17 campuses in the University of North Carolina system. Appalachia is home to nearly 21,000 students, has a low student-faculty ratio, and offers more than 150 undergraduate and graduate majors.
