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Read more » 0 CommentsIn a first-ever joint project The Baltimore Review and the Beltway Poetry Quarterly come together to host some of the best regional talent in the I-495 Corridor. The two online journals will co-sponsor an afternoon of readings from featured authors to highlight the importance of literary partnership…
Read more » 0 CommentsThe behavior of the prose poem, its fearful mixing, I wear like skin. Look, and you can see that I am strange mixture: part Asian, part Western. I am the compression of these two, the repetition of parts and their fragmentation. No wonder then the form has seized my imagination, beginning with…
Read more » 0 CommentsReaders, you'll note that we have included five Visuals inspired by our "Heat" theme. The challenge: Respond to any of these images that spark something in you. How? Write a 100-word prose poem or micro fiction. 100 words only. Really. Not one word more. Not one word less. Email them (yes, email,…
Read more » 0 CommentsThe Baltimore Review editors are pleased to announce the winners of our Summer Issue “Heat” theme contest. We hope that readers will enjoy the winning story and poems as much as we do. All appear in our Summer Issue online and will appear in our annual print collection in 2013. Our…
Read more » 0 CommentsMessages By Piotr Gwiazda Pond Road Press 2012 I began reading Piotr Gwiazda's second book of poems, Messages, just out from Pond Road Press, with the suspicion that parts of it would be difficult. Maybe it was the abstract cover design, or maybe the fact that Gwiazda teaches courses in…
Read more » 0 CommentsFrom North Avenue and Fells Point to the old mill towns in Pennsylvania’s Mon Valley, Umberto's Night—the 2012 winner of The Jean Feldman Poetry Prize from the Washington Writers’ Publishing House— is BR Senior Editor Kathleen Hellen's ghost-walk through the post-inustrial landscape. It will…
Read more » 0 CommentsSo what are The Baltimore Review editors reading? Besides submissions. Well, we're always reading submissions, and we love submissions. Especially your submissions. Yes, you. Don't get us wrong. We haven't forgotten you. It's just--sometimes we need a night out with someone new. A tryst, a fling, a…
Read more » 0 CommentsWilliam Faulkner claimed to have written As I Lay Dying in six weeks while working at a power plant. I sometimes take that long just to get warmed up. For me, writing fiction is often a slow and difficult process, plagued with false starts and detours. Even the false starts can be instructive,…
Read more » 0 CommentsI’m sitting in the Amsterdam airport lounge, drinking another espresso, watching broadcasters broadcast news of massacres in Syria on TV. I’m on my way back to Washington from Nigeria, where I work on issues of conflict assessment, early warning, and prevention. There’s a ton of…
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