The Spring Issue features poems, fiction, and creative nonfiction by: Brandon Amico Catherine Carberry William Fargason Tim Fitts Matthew Gavin Frank Benjamin Goldberg Calvin Hennick Meg Hunter Timur Karaca Janice Ko Luo Barbara Nishimoto Kate Peper Maya Schenwar Matthew Sisson Jill Storey…
Read more » 0 CommentsLo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta. -Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita I might suffer from a touch of arrested development. I’m from an area…
Read more » 3 CommentsBaltimore Review will have a table at the CityLit Festival on Saturday, April 12, 10 am - 5 pm, at the beautiful Enoch Pratt Library on Cathedral Street. If you're in Baltimore, stop by and say Hello. We're quite friendly. Also, note that one of our editors, Lalita Noronha, will be reading from her…
Read more » 0 CommentsBaltimore people: Submit your fabulous reading venues for the Poets & Writers "Best Reading Venues in the USA" database. We want to look our best, right? I mean, is there any day of the week when something is not happening in Baltimore? OK, you other cities, too, in case we come to visit.…
Read more » 0 CommentsGreat news from BR contributor Le Hinton: First, his poem “No Doubt About It (I Gotta Get Another Hat),” published in The Little Patuxent Review (winter 2013 issue), will be published in Best American Poetry. You can hear him read the poem here:…
Read more » 0 CommentsCongratulations to Megan Grumbling on making the Best of the Net list for her poem "Vapors." http://www.sundresspublications.com/bestof/poetry.htm Also, to Joanna Pearson, a finalist for her poem "Moon Children." http://www.sundresspublications.com/bestof/finalists.htm Well-deserved honors. The…
Read more » 0 CommentsThe theme for The Baltimore Review’s summer contest is "How To." Why? Because I'm an old dog that can--and likes to--learn new tricks. Because--lucky me--I get to pick the contest theme. Because I know that a lot of writers, like me, spend way too much time in research activities because we're…
Read more » 0 CommentsThe editors of The Baltimore Review are pleased to announce the winners of our winter contest. Brett Foster, 1st place, for “On the Numbness That Will Be Our Future” Clay Matthews 2nd place, for “An Angel Gets Her Wings” Roy Bentley, 3rd place, for “O, Kindergarten” The final…
Read more » 0 CommentsI am currently enrolled in a nine-month certification course related to my job, so the chapbook format is the perfect fit for my highly compressed reading-for-pleasure time. Chapbooks are like potato chips: it’s impossible to consume just one—and who would want to!? Easy on the wallet and highly…
Read more » 0 CommentsEdward P. Jones: Lost in the City; All Aunt Hagar's Children. Stunning evocation of place, community, and time. Lost in the City had been on my must-read-but-haven't-yet for a long time, so when I did read it, I ran out and tracked down a copy of his second collection of short stories, All Aunt…
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