We are pleased to announce that Jean McGarry http://writingseminars.jhu.edu/faculty_directory/mcgarry.html has agreed to serve as the final judge for our summer contest. Please submit contest entries in all genres--fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction-- through the Contest link on the…
Read more » 0 CommentsWhy? Because Walt Whitman was born on May 31? Because William Faulker published "The Kid Learns" in 1925 and "The Tall Men" in 1941--both on May 31? Because this is the day in 1957 Arthur Miller was convicted for refusing give up the names of alleged Communist writers? Because on that…
Read more » 0 CommentsIn 2002, The BR was proud to publish "You Have to Stand for Something" by Kathleen Toomey Jabs. Now, the BR is proud to have Kathleen as a guest on the BR blog. Congratulations on the publication of your novel, Kathleen! Kathleen shares her story: “You Have to Stand for Something” was my first…
Read more » 0 CommentsA father falling from the sky, angels playing horns, holy spume, a murder of crows, grass tall as a tornado, hundreds of razorblack wings, a dismantled sun, a touch of ice, a line scratched into the horizon, a broth of sin and bliss, girls in yellow bikinis, professor curtis, a wife's…
Read more » 0 CommentsIt’s energy. It’s intensity. It’s passion. It consumes you. It bakes. It steams. It’s a fever, or a just blush. It’s a night in a cheap motel, a barefoot walk on hot sand, an hour in the interrogation room. It’s nuclear fusion or the Senate floor. It’s jalapeno and habanero peppers.…
Read more » 0 CommentsThe Baltimore Review is pleased to share the following contributor news: Ned Balbo's third book, The Trials of Edgar Poe and Other Poems (Story Line Press, 2010), has been awarded the 2012 Poets' Prize, judged by a panel of 20 U.S. poets. The prize includes a cash award and a reading at the Nicholas…
Read more » 0 CommentsYes, the BR editors are all writers who deal in the alphabet currency every day--in denominations of words, phrases, sentences, paragraphs, stanzas--with punctuation marks to make sense of it all. Some of here like to keep tabs on the numbers, too, and we thought that our readers and…
Read more » 0 CommentsIn 2007, I attended a writer's conference and was manning the Baltimore Review table, meeting new and established writers and sharing information about our journal and the type of work we accepted. However, I remember distinctly feeling that the panels offered at the conference were not especially…
Read more » 0 CommentsI’ve been thinking about the mystery of author names, how the name of a poet or writer will sometimes seem exquisitely fitting, like it’s an emblem of the work. And there’s music in a name. The “Billy” in Billy Collins catches something about that poet’s intimate tone; it’s like a…
Read more » 0 CommentsJessica Anya Blau is one of Baltimore’s most esteemed novelists. She is the author of The Summer of Naked Swim Parties (2008) and Drinking Closer to Home (2011), both of which have received immense praise by the Today Show, The New York Post, New York Magazine, The San Francisco Chronicle and the…
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