Please, let me tell you about Kraków.Today, as I rode my bicycle around the park that surrounds the city’s medieval heart, I glimpsed two older women arguing good-naturedly while sitting on the Neil Gaiman bench. A woman, perhaps a student, sat on the bench dedicated to Polish journalist Jan…
Read more » 0 CommentsOn the Search for a YesI’ve been working my way through the recent CNF submissions, looking for that one. We all know what I mean by this. The writing that, as I’m reading, I feel in my bones. My fingers nearly vibrate as they wait to scroll, because my eyes can’t read fast enough for that…
Read more » 0 CommentsNeed to get some writing time on your calendar? You can register to write with us up until 1:30 p.m. on October 17, half an hour before we begin! Prompts provided. Here's the registration link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/write-with-us-tickets-159938062049
Read more » 0 CommentsWrite with us! Sunday, October 17, 2:00-3:00 p.m. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/write-with-us-tickets-159938062049 Creativity thrives within restraints.Adina EdelmanI once assisted in a writing workshop for teens. They were a fun bunch…
Read more » 0 CommentsWhile I was taking a vacation from all my BR duties last week, the journal passed 8,000 followers on Twitter. Not bragging and, to be honest, flooding social media with posts and tweets is not our thing. But it is cool to be in a position to amplify news from our contributors and arts organizations.…
Read more » 0 CommentsBookstores are some of my favorite places. Even when I was a kid, and I knew I wasn’t allowed to get anything, I would browse the shelves for hours on end. When my parents dragged me to a mall, I inevitably found the first opportunity to disappear into a Waldens or Borders or B&N until it was…
Read more » 0 CommentsNews and Writing Prompts!Baltimore Review 2021Baltimore Review 2021, the compilation of the poems, short stories, and creative nonfiction in our Summer and Fall 2020 and Winter and Spring 2021 online issues, is now available on Amazon. Copies have been ordered for the Library of Congress, NewPages,…
Read more » 0 CommentsOur annual print compilation should be ready to send off to contributors within a day or two. Yes!_____________It was an honor to be part of the first Pier-Glass Poetry Panel on May 6, 2021, along with poets Kari Gunter-Seymour and Jeremy Page, and hosted by Stan Galloway. I checked YouTube, and now…
Read more » 0 CommentsHappy Labor Day! Great to see Marc Alan Di Martino's poem from the Spring 2019 issue translated into Italian (English version is here too)--and getting a wider audience. The poem is also the opener of his book "Unburial."------------------------Happy to report that we are almost done…
Read more » 0 CommentsHappy Monday! I see that today is Frankenstein Day, the birthday of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, author of Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus, published in 1818. Celebrate by reading the book for free on the Project Gutenberg site, one of 66,099 ebooks and one of 26 by Shelley you can read…
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