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 Marge Piercy, Kate Rushin, Chen Chen, Joanne Kyger, 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 creative nonfiction and fiction essential to the 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. 

THE MASTHEAD

JOHN BONANNI ​ is CCPR's editor-in-chief and lives on Cape Cod. He is the recipient of grants from the Arts Foundation of Cape Cod and the Massachusetts Cultural Council in Brewster, as well as a scholarship from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown and a residency from AS220 in Providence, RI. His work has appeared in Foglifter, Gulf Coast, the Seattle Review, ​​Verse Daily, and Prairie Schooner, among others. More at johnbonanni.com 

COREY FARRENKOPF  serves as CCPR's fiction editor. He lives on Cape Cod with his wife, Gabrielle, and works as a librarian. His fiction has been published in  Catapult, Redivider, Tiny Nightmares, Hobart, Monkeybicycle,  Volume 1 Brooklyn, The Forge, Third Point Press, and elsewhere. To learn more, follow him on twitter @CoreyFarrenkopf or on the web at CoreyFarrenkopf.com

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.

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 Southeastern Massachusetts University, 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.

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. ​