In 2014 I began keeping a list of the books I read. I’d never made a habit of this, and if someone asked me the best book I read in 2013, I’d be hard pressed to remember even one title. So in 2014 I began the practice, and I can tell you without referring to my notes that 1Q84 was the best book…
Read more » 0 CommentsA Writer's Inspiration - Jean Free The Rotary Dial, a journal that focuses on formal poetry, recently included my poem “Astrology” in their annual Best Dial Poems of 2015 issue. I am so elated to see this poem in print, mostly because of how long it took me to write about a seemingly…
Read more » 0 CommentsIs it OK to say that a book tickled me? I don’t normally read “weird” books. I read novels with plots, memoirs, short stories. This one, though, this weird little book, it won me over. Reading Gabe Durham’s Fun Camp is like listening to your smartest, funniest, cleverist (and…
Read more » 0 CommentsSeven Scenes for Fiction Writers, Vol. 2 A Project of The Baltimore Review Get the new year off to a good start by warming up your writing muscles--or give "Seven Scenes for Fiction Writers" as a gift! "Seven Scenes for Fiction Writers" is a one-week+ opportunity for writers to practice…
Read more » 0 CommentsWilliam Black earned his MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Alabama, and has taught fiction, poetry, and nonfiction courses at Ohio University, Western Washington University, the University of Alabama, the University of Scranton, and Johns Hopkins University. I first met Bill at Hopkins,…
Read more » 2 CommentsWe are pleased to again present Stephen J. West's creative nonfiction work "The Drive from Morgantown to Baltimore," which appeared in The Baltimore Review's Winter 2012 (first online) issue. This 630-word piece about a drive to the Wilmer Eye Institute in Baltimore packs a powerful experience for…
Read more » 0 CommentsSo, we’ll be looking back into our archives every Thursday (or every other, or a few here and there) to highlight a piece from one of our previous issues. We’ll be letting you know our thoughts, reading it now—and letting these stories and poems and essays live on a bit longer. What I noticed…
Read more » 0 CommentsThe Baltimore Review editors are pleased to present the Fall 2015 issue! A prime number (17) of poems, stories, and works of creative nonfiction. So please, make yourselves comfortable, pour a glass of good wine or a cup of fragrant tea, and read. Read more than once. If you read something that…
Read more » 0 CommentsEdgar Allen Poe’s cask of poems and stories has inspired musicians from the classical strings to the punk screams. From André Caplet's Conte fantastique and Rachmaninoff's choral symphony The Bells, to Bob Dylan's "Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues," to Queen’s "Nevermore" written by Freddie Mercury,…
Read more » 0 CommentsFinal Judge for the Contest: Joanna Pearson, MD Link to the Submit page (and that big blue Submit button): http://baltimorereview.org/index.php/submit Pssst. For students in Schools of Public Health, Medicine, and Nursing only: On the contest submission deadline date (November 30,…
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