12.10.2012

Prompt Response Category - Another Intriguing Image to Consider

by Barbara Westwood Diehl

See this visual prompt?                   This image is used with the permission of Andrew Abbott. Let's call it: "We did not return."  Did it set the cogs and gears of your mind in motion? Excellent. Submit your response in the "Prompt Response"…

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12.6.2012

Working with Used Books, or Rooting Through Other People’s Stuff

by Liv Lansdale

Having failed to nab a number of internships at showy magazines, I’d thought of my new job as a bookstore clerk as settling. My first impression of my bosses didn’t help quash my snobbery—six straight hours spent talking sports and handling books without a single mention of their own literary…

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12.4.2012

Gary L. McDowell’s WEEPING AT A STRANGER’S FUNERAL to be published by Dream Horse Press

by Barbara Westwood Diehl

Baltimore Review contributor Gary L. McDowell is proud to announce that his second full-length book of poetry, WEEPING AT A STRANGER'S FUNERAL, has been accepted by Dream Horse Press. The publisher is expecting a late 2013 release date." WEEPING AT A STRANGER'S FUNERAL is a book of associative and…

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11.28.2012

Clinching the Poem: Michael Salcman’s “The Cult of Beauty” in River Styx 88

by Barbara Westwood Diehl

I was catching up with the NewPages blog this morning—always a good source of literary journal news—when this November 26 blog post title caught my eye: “End of the World. End of the Book?” My heart stopped. Well, not for long. Although the post was an announcement of the River Styx issue…

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11.25.2012

Breathing Life into Pi

by Liv Lansdale

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…

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11.21.2012

One More Category for the Winter Issue - and a Lot of Other “C” Words

by Barbara Westwood Diehl

See 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…

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11.13.2012

Three New Collections from John F. Buckley and Martin Ott

by Barbara Westwood Diehl

Publication 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…

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10.26.2012

Announcing Final Judge for Winter Contest: Bruce A. Jacobs

by Barbara Westwood Diehl

Announcing 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…

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9.18.2012

Michael Salcman to Participate in Science Café Reading and Discussion

by Barbara Westwood Diehl

Michael 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…

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9.18.2012

Worth Repeating: Maggot by Paul Muldoon

by Kelsey Osgood

The 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…

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