You'd be hard pressed these days to find a movie not based on a book. On the Lincoln:Vampire Hunter/ Lincoln à la Team of Rivals spectrum, today's theatergoers face Twilight, Cloud Atlas, Anna Karenina, and soon, Silk and Fifty Shades of Grey (new spectrum-markers, I'll bet anything). As…
Read more » 0 CommentsSee this visual prompt? The title of this photo by Michael Whalen is "Landing." Did it set the cogs and gears of your mind in motion? Excellent. Submit your response in the "Prompt Response" category at the Submit link. You have a lot of leeway, and we're eager to see how all those minds out there…
Read more » 0 CommentsPublication news from BR contributor John F. Buckley: When novice poet John F. Buckley decided to Google his college buddy Martin Ott, he was stunned to discover that his friend was not only a novelist and screenwriter, but also a Pushcart-nominated poet. After Buckley recovered, he sent Ott two…
Read more » 0 CommentsAnnouncing the final judge for our winter contest: Bruce A. Jacobs Contest deadline is November 30. Theme is "Destination." Click the "Submit" button on the Submission Guidelines page for more information. Bruce A. Jacobs is a poet, a nonfiction author, a working jazz drummer, and an improving…
Read more » 0 CommentsMichael Salcman, Little Patuxent Review Consulting Editor for Art, and Baltimore Review poetry editor, will give a joint poetry reading with Myra Sklarew on the topic of Science and Technology. Their reading will be followed by a panel discussion with brief readings by other poets and writers. This…
Read more » 0 CommentsThe following review of the (then) forthcoming Maggot by Paul Muldoon was accepted by The Baltimore Review in 2010, prior to our re-launch, and is quoted at http://www.paulmuldoon.net/news.php4 . We think it's worth repeating. - Barbara Westwood Diehl, Senior Editor Upon revisiting this review, I'm…
Read more » 0 CommentsBe sure to stop by our booth at the Baltimore Book Festival, held September 28-30, 2012! We'll be sharing a booth with Washington Writers Publishing House, and we think you'll like the WWPH folks, too. Hang out and chat with us. We love shmoozing with fellow writers and editors. And readers!…
Read more » 0 CommentsThanks to Lisa Mecham and Becky Tuch for including this interview in The Review Review. http://thereviewreview.net/interviews Many, many interviews at this site that writers should enjoy reading, as well as tips, reviews, classified, and more. Check it out.
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…
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