A post in our Milestones series from past contributor Matthew Lippman. How do we fix poetry? How do we alter the sentiment? How do we take the poem and make it loved, not by other poets, but for the everyday boy and girl, man and woman? It’s been the one driving force in my life as a poet…
Read more » CommentsMy forty-ninth birthday is coming up, one shy of the big half century mark. It falls on the second day of the school year, and instead of going out for a fancy dinner I will be telling parents about the middle school math…
Read more » CommentsLet me get a little sentimental here. For just a couple of minutes. I promise. The Baltimore Review is now celebrating 20 years of publishing and, yes, this really is a very big deal for me. In the coming months, expect us to celebrate in as many ways as we can conjure up. And we’re actually…
Read more » CommentsIt starts with solitude. And doing nothing. In bed before sleep. Daydreaming at work. Sitting on the subway. That’s when writing begins, when solitude is more madhouse than meditation. I honestly don’t know exactly how ideas form out of the maelstrom of moods, intimations, abstractions, hormonal…
Read more » 1 CommentsAnd you're supposed to be having fun, right? Grilling shish kebabs. Playing croquet with the kids. Quaffing a couple of cold ones . . . Unless trimming the fat from your prose and shopping for elegant nouns and verbs is your idea of fun. And yes, for some of us, that actually is our idea of fun. So…
Read more » CommentsRead how Angela Morales took a businesslike approach to submitting her essays to literary journals in the May/June 2016 issue of Poets & Writers. Every essay in her recently published book, The Girls in My Town, was first published in a journal—including the Spring 2012 issue of The Baltimore…
Read more » CommentsWe enjoy checking in with writers we’ve published in past issues. We loved Geoff Wyss’s “Black and White,” a story about a teacher who is mistaken by the New Orleans police for someone much more dangerous but also a story that gradually becomes, well, self-aware. We published Wyss’s story…
Read more » CommentsI’d been writing for over ten years before I even heard of the AWP conference. Friends who’d recently finished an MFA were going, and for days beforehand it was all they talked about. Nowadays I’m well aware when the annual writers conference rolls around. As surely as sap begins to run in the…
Read more » CommentsYes, through the magic of multiple editors who can juggle responsibilities in the air without dropping even one promotional item (BR airplanes!), flier, book, pen, mug, or credit card reader, the BR will be present at not only Split This Rock in D.C. on April 16 but also Baltimore's fabulous CityLit…
Read more » CommentsWe are honored to feature “A Love Supreme” by Mary Morris, originally published in our Spring 2012 issue. It is an opportunity to revisit this elegant poem where different art forms converge, adding breadth and depth to the ongoing spiritual conversation that John Coltrane’s song pulls…
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