The Baltimore Review

Capacitor (Be Mine)

Cindy King - Capacitor (Be Mine)

Poetry

Cindy King’s work appears in The Sun, Callaloo, Prairie Schooner, Gettysburg Review, Crab Orchard Review, The Slowdown, Verse Daily, River Styx, Cincinnati Review, North American Review, and… Read more »

Illustration of a Sea Monk

Joshua Jones - Illustration of a Sea Monk

Poetry

Joshua Jones received his MFA from UMass Boston and is a PhD candidate at the University of North Texas. His poems and essays have appeared in Image, Southwest Review, and Salamander among other… Read more »

In Which Love Is a Kind of Falling

Adrian S. Potter - In Which Love Is a Kind of Falling

Poetry

Adrian S. Potter writes poetry and prose in Minnesota. He is the author of the poetry collection Everything Wrong Feels Right and the prose chapbook The Alter Ego Handbook. Some publication credits… Read more »

My Sister

Travis Truax - My Sister

Poetry

Travis Truax grew up in Virginia and Oklahoma and spent most of his twenties working in various national parks out west. A graduate of Southeastern Oklahoma State University, his work has appeared or… Read more »

Orison

J. C. Todd - Orison

Poetry

J. C. Todd’s most recent books are Beyond Repair, runner-up in the Able Muse Press contest, forthcoming in 2021 and The Damages of Morning (Moonstone Press), a 2019 Eric Hoffer Award finalist.… Read more »

Starlings

Meg Kearney - Starlings

Poetry

Meg Kearney is author of two books of poems for adults, An Unkindness of Ravens and Home By Now, winner of the 2010 PEN New England LL Winship Award; as well as three novels in verse for teens, The… Read more »

Stricken Ghazal

Emily Rose Cole - Stricken Ghazal

Poetry

Emily Rose Cole is the author of Love & a Loaded Gun, a chapbook of persona poems in the voices of mythological and historical women, published in 2017 by Minerva Rising Press. She has received… Read more »

The Doctor Said We Need to Return in Two Months After Further Testing Including Bloodwork

Amy Small-McKinney - The Doctor Said We Need to Return in Two Months After Further Testing Including Bloodwork

Poetry

Amy Small-McKinney’s second full-length book of poetry, Walking Toward Cranes (Glass Lyre Press, 2017) won the Kithara Book Prize 2016. Her work appears widely in journals, such as Connotation… Read more »

To: George Carlin’s Fleas

Vernita Hall - To: George Carlin’s Fleas

Poetry

Vernita Hall is the author of Where William Walked: Poems About Philadelphia and Its People of Color, winner of the Willow Books Grand Prize and of the Robert Creeley Prize from Marsh Hawk Press; and… Read more »

What We Knew Then

Rebecca Cross - What We Knew Then

Poetry

Rebecca Cross holds an MA in creative and critical writing from the University of Sussex. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Quarterly West, Hotel Amerika, Beloit Poetry Journal, Harpur… Read more »

Woman Alone

Monica Joy Fara - Woman Alone

Poetry

Monica Joy Fara was born and raised in Lincoln, Nebraska, and has spent extensive time living, teaching, and adventuring abroad. Current and forthcoming publications include journals such as The Tampa… Read more »

To: George Carlin’s Fleas

Vernita Hall

From: King Covid XIX I hoist no flag yet legions follow me I claim no land yet millions take the knee Without appeal I take all prisoner — princes presidents prime ministers Neither feckless foe nor primitive I crept past dream invaded while you slept an enemy that won’t negotiate will not deal Watch the revelation I’ll reveal Consider this reckoning: I bend toward apocalypse the telltale horsemen I am your night terrors the last word I am the second coming and the third I insinuate You hoard and bicker I proliferate As you grow sicker I’ll swarm the seat of power while you mourn your halcyon days before my storm While steward you appointed yourself master squandered all treasures sped the earth clock faster But I helm this realm today do as I please I own the dogs of war — you’re just their fleas