Ian Cappelli is the associate editor at Denver Quarterly and an English and Literary Arts PhD candidate at the University of Denver. His work has recently appeared, or is forthcoming, in Best New Poets, Beloit Poetry Journal, Bennington Review, Image Journal, The Iowa Review, Smartish Pace, Blackbird, The Florida Review, West Branch, RHINO, The Cincinnati Review, and Palette Poetry, among others. His chapbook "Another Longue Durée" won the 2025 Vallum chapbook contest. IG: @versiprose / www.iancappelli.com.
Denver Quarterly is historically known as an experimental or avant-garde publication, and our readers are intimately aware of that reputation, selecting poems, stories, and essays that have a more intellectual or academic lean—that being said, our readers each come with different literary tastes and backgrounds, rarely sticking to only one kind of writing. Personally, I look for a sense of surprise, complicated emotional resonance, or something particularly thought-provoking.
