This tri-quarterly publishes solid poetry, highlighted by work from Douglas Van Gundy and Robert Sward in past issues and also publishes fiction, photographs, and multimedia. It has a reputation for good non-fiction. CC generally solicits work from established writers but will also consider unsolicited work. In August 1996, it published a handsome print anthology of the year's best work, called Writers of the Information Age. It tends toward experimental and language poetry, most notably that of Robert Kendall and surllama.
Submissions are usually by invitation.
The poetry editor, Matt Mason, held a Cows and Elvis poetry contest. It has audio clips. It also archives all poems on this site that have been posted to subscribers' e-mail addresses in past years. The editor, Sal Salasin, prefers poems written in a vernacular, non-narrative style, modeling itself after Another Chicago Magazine and Exquisite Corpse. Very popular in the Internet world.