I’m sitting in the Amsterdam airport lounge, drinking another espresso, watching broadcasters broadcast news of massacres in Syria on TV. I’m on my way back to Washington from Nigeria, where I work on issues of conflict assessment, early warning, and prevention. There’s a ton of…
Read more » 0 CommentsWe 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…
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