Cape Cod Review, formerly Cape Cod Poetry Review, was founded in 2011 by local writers John Bonanni and Gemma Leghorn. After a multiple dialogues with poets at open mics at O'Shea's in West Dennis and The Black Spot in Hyannis, the full vision of the journal, later cultivated over soggy paper plates at a BBQ, sought to highlight poetry on Cape Cod with a tangible publication. They recruited ML Wolters, Corey Farrenkopf, David Cravenho, and Theresa Rogers, and currently seek qualified interns to help with proofreading and reading. Representative writers published over the past decade have included D.A. Powell, Marge Piercy, Kate Rushin, Chen Chen, Joanne Kyger, Joan Kwon Glass, Thomas Merton, Michael Bondhus, Jane Wong, John Wieners, and Gregory Corso, among others. With its tenth issue, the journal has rebranded to Cape Cod Review to better include the creative nonfiction and fiction essential to literary arts. Chapbooks and other publications now fall under our umbrella of Cape Cod Editions.
Our small press provides a well-needed outlet for strengthening the creative writing community that exists past the greater Boston area, on Cape Cod (why should Boston have all the journals anyway?). We aim to connect the disconnected writer with open mics, launches, workshops, and better built bridges with writing community. Our publications not only showcase the talent of local Cape Cod writers but also aim to give voice to concerns that are specific to the unique social/political/geological landscape of the area, all while pushing outwardly toward national and international poetics.
Our small press provides a well-needed outlet for strengthening the creative writing community that exists past the greater Boston area, on Cape Cod (why should Boston have all the journals anyway?). We aim to connect the disconnected writer with open mics, launches, workshops, and better built bridges with writing community. Our publications not only showcase the talent of local Cape Cod writers but also aim to give voice to concerns that are specific to the unique social/political/geological landscape of the area, all while pushing outwardly toward national and international poetics.
THE MASTHEAD
JOHN BONANNI is CCPR's editor-in-chief and lives on Cape Cod. A Pushcart, Best of the Net, and Best New Poets nominee, he is the recipient of an artist grant from the Arts Foundation of Cape Cod and the NEA, as well as a scholarship from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. His poems have appeared in Foglifter, Gulf Coast, Michigan Quarterly Review, Black Warrior Review, and Prairie Schooner, and his critical prose has appeared in Kenyon Review, DIAGRAM, Tupelo Quarterly, and Denver Quarterly. His manuscripts have been finalists for first book prizes from Anhinga Press, University of Pittsburgh Press, and Wesleyan University Press. More at johnbonanni.com
DAVID M. CRAVENHO is CCPR's art editor and an artist currently working on Cape Cod. His visual art has appeared at Berta Walker Gallery in Provincetown, the Cotuit Center for the Arts, and the Cultural Center of Cape Cod in Yarmouth. He received a B.F.A. from UMass Dartmouth, an M.F.A. from Rochester Institute of Technology, and an M.S.A.E. from Massachusetts College of Art. He is the recipient of Artist in Residencies from the Banff School of Fine Arts, Alfred University, and the Archie Bray Foundation, among others. He has taught for the University of Georgia in Cortona, Italy and for Massachusetts College of Art.
COREY FARRENKOPF serves as CCPR's fiction editor. His debut novel, Living in Cemeteries, was released from JournalStone in April of 2024 and his debut short story collection, Haunted Ecologies, was released from JournalStone in February of 2025. His work has appeared in Electric Literature, Strange Horizons, The Southwest Review, The Deadlands, Nightmare, SmokeLong Quarterly, Tiny Nightmares, Catapult, Flash Fiction Online, Bourbon Penn, and elsewhere. His work has been nominated for multiple Pushcart Prizes and a Best of the Net award. He has also been nominated for both the Year’s Best Horror Anthology and the Year’s Best Horror and Dark Fantasy Anthology. He is represented by Marie Lamba of the Jennifer De Chiara Literary Agency. He works as a librarian. To learn more, follow him on twitter @CoreyFarrenkopf or on the web at CoreyFarrenkopf.com
M.D. MCINTYRE is a writer and researcher living in Minneapolis, MN. She loves reading and writing essays that are rich in place and diverse in form. Her essays have appeared in The Sun, Electric Lit, The Rumpus, Fourth Genre, Sycamore Review, The Southampton Review, Storm Cellar, Rock & Sling, Atticus Review, Midwest Review, and other lovely journals online and in print. You can find her author interviews at Write or Die Tribe, Normal School, and the Michigan Quarterly Review. She earned her MFA in Creative Nonfiction in Lake Tahoe from Sierra Nevada University (now the University of Nevada). She lives in the arts district with her family and very friendly coffee shop pup Marco. You can find her on instagram @m.d.mcintyre or her website.
THERESA ROGERS helps with poetry editing. She splits her time between Vancouver, Canada, and Wellfleet on Cape Cod. She has published poems in this journal and in the English Bay Review, Uppagus, Cathexis Northwest, San Diego Review, and the Cape Cod Times Poetry Page. She recently won second prize in the Vancouver City Poems contest. She teaches at The University of British Columbia and recently rekindled her passion for writing poetry and serving the writing community.
ML WOLTERS supports CCPR with layout and design. She is an alumna of Wheaton College, MA, where she studied creative writing and history; she is a recipient of the college's Helen Meyers Tate Memorial Prize for Original Verse. She works as a communications manager for an environmental nonprofit and edits for a New York Times bestselling author in Boston.
