David Olimpio

David Olimpio is the Publisher of Atticus Review. He also held this title, along with Editor in Chief, from January 2017 through December 2021. He writes, plays music, and spends way too much time thinking about the economy. He looks for meaning in license plates. He loves art and once had a dog named Rothko who was famous in certain parts of the Internet. Before moving to Denver, he called a lot of other places home, including Washington DC, New Jersey, Philadelphia, and Dallas. But it turns out none of those places were home like now is home and that's what he's trying to process in his current writing. He is the author of This Is Not a Confession (Awst Press, 2016), a memoir which is entirely a confession. His website is davidolimpio.com.

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This Is Not a Confession

David Olimpio

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This Week at Atticus Review — 08.15.2016
by David Olimpio | Aug 15, 2016 | The Attic | 0
I guess this might seem like a weird story to tell as part of my blog post for the Atticus Review. But look, online literary journals like this one and the many other great ones out there are full of human connections. They’re full of strangers becoming less strange, talking about their identities that they sometimes leave behind in various inconvenient places while taking photos of pretty turtles. And everybody just hoping to be in the right place at the right time for somebody else. I mean, let’s just do this shit as much as possible, you guys.
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This Week at Atticus Review – 08.08.2016
by David Olimpio | Aug 8, 2016 | The Attic | 0
Last night, I watched Katie Ledecky summarily win Gold in the 400 Freestyle in Rio, beating her own world record (made earlier in the day) by nearly two seconds and beating the next closest swimmer by five seconds. I’m still sweating just thinking about it. After the race, Ledecky told an interviewer beside the pool that she knew she would win and get the time she did because the swim she’d made earlier that morning had felt good and she knew she had more in her. It’s inspiring witnessing athletes at the top of their game. It’s inspiring to witness that level of confidence in one’s own abilities, a confidence that isn’t cocky, but instead is just calm and knowing and comes from hours and hours of practice.
My God, the Olympic Games have been a welcome dose of positivity in a summer that has been filled with unrelenting negativity. In a world that seems broken by bravado and bluster, the athletes at the games offer a humble antidote.
On that note, here’s what’s coming up this week at Atticus Review…
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This Week at Atticus Review: A Note from the EIC
by David Olimpio | Aug 1, 2016 | The Attic | 0
It’s a wet one here in Northern New Jersey. I’m writing this morning from a dark, dimly lit room, listening to Waits’ Rain Dogs next to two dogs reined in by the inclement weather, two dogs who’d much rather be wrestling in the waterlogged earth outside then lying restless on the dry couch next to me. Rain is one of dog’s first lessons in unfairness. Rain is the inner-torment-fallen-strawberry-ice-cream-cone.
We have a great week coming up at Atticus Review. More on that, and also this thought from poet Naomi Shihab Nye: “You are living in a poem.”
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Monday Missive: Note from the EIC
by David Olimpio | Jul 25, 2016 | The Attic | 0
It’s my intent, for better or worse, to jot out a missive each Monday with a purpose that is two-fold. 1) To let you know what’s coming up for the week at Atticus Review and 2) To occasionally express a little of what’s on my mind in terms of literature, the media, words, art, music. I will aim to keep these to about 800 words, which I believe is a number of words that holds special magical powers when it comes to electronic missives, children’s books, or recipes for guacamole.
First off, I’m happy to be at Atticus Review and I want to thank Dan Cafaro for bringing me on board. There is so much talent published on this site and there is such great talent bringing that talent to this site and I feel very lucky to be within such short sight of those great talents. I look forward to carrying on with more of the same, in addition to more of the non-same or new, including a (new!) weekly publishing schedule, several (new!) social media accounts, and a (new!) reading series which will at first be local to Northern New Jersey, but which could expand to other (new!) areas (some of which don’t even necessarily have to have “new” in the name.)
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