The Baltimore Review

Again You Call to Me

Marie Pavlicek-Wehrli - Again You Call to Me

Poet and visual artist Marie Pavlicek-Wehrli has been a Fellow at both the Virginia Center for the Arts and the Ragdale Foundation. Her poems have appeared in various journals and anthologies,… Read more »

All She Can Do Is Wonder

Areej Quraishi - All She Can Do Is Wonder

Fiction

Areej Quraishi's fiction appears in The Normal School, Indiana Review, Sycamore Review, Porter House Review, Southern Humanities Review, jmww, and elsewhere. It has received accolades from Glimmer… Read more »

Daps for the Dead

Sacha Bissonnette - Daps for the Dead

Fiction

Sacha Bissonnette is a writer from Ottawa, Canada. His fiction has appeared in Witness, Wigleaf, SmokeLong, EQMM, Terrain, Ghost Parachute, The No Sleep Podcast and elsewhere. He is currently working… Read more »

Depression, Early January

Jane McKinley - Depression, Early January

Poetry

Jane McKinley is a Baroque oboist with degrees in music from Northwestern University and Princeton University. She is the author of Vanitas, winner of the 2011 Walt McDonald First-Book Award (Texas… Read more »

Elegy After a Disturbance

Zachariah Claypole White - Elegy After a Disturbance

Poetry

Zachariah Claypole White is a Philadelphia-based writer and educator, originally from North Carolina. He holds a BA from Oberlin College and an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College. His poetry and prose… Read more »

Every Now and Then the Yard Caught Fire

Renee Emerson - Every Now and Then the Yard Caught Fire

Poetry

Renee Emerson is the author of the poetry collections Keeping Me Still (Winter Goose Publishing 2014), Threshing Floor (Jacar Press 2016), and Church Ladies (Fernwood Press 2023). She is also the… Read more »

I Look Good in Debt

Sara Burge - I Look Good in Debt

Poetry

Sara Burge is the author of Apocalypse Ranch (C&R Press), and her poetry has been published in or is forthcoming from CALYX Journal, Willow Springs, Virginia Quarterly Review, The Louisville… Read more »

Laugh Machine

Katherine Tunning - Laugh Machine

Fiction

Katherine Tunning lives in Boston with her partner and a highly variable number of cats. Some of her recent work has appeared in Waxwing, The Penn Review, and Washington Square Review, and has been… Read more »

Rescue Anne

Brian Czyzyk - Rescue Anne

Poetry

Brian Czyzyk is a poet from Traverse City, Michigan. His work appears or is forthcoming in Gulf Coast, Passages North, The Offing, Ninth Letter, and POETRY Magazine among others. He holds an MFA from… Read more »

Seventeen

Joshua Jones Lofflin - Seventeen

Joshua Jones Lofflin’s writing has appeared in The Best Microfiction, The Best Small Fictions, The Cincinnati Review, CRAFT, Fractured Lit, Moon City Review, SmokeLong Quarterly, and elsewhere. He… Read more »

Snowball

Tara A. Elliott - Snowball

A poet and educator, Tara A. Elliott's poems have or will soon appear in Cimarron Review, Wildness, Passengers Journal, and Ninth Letter, among others. She serves as Executive Director of the Eastern… Read more »

The Home Front, 1992

Sheila Black - The Home Front, 1992

Poetry

Sheila Black’s most recent collection is Radium Dream from Salmon Poetry Ireland. Poems and essays have appeared in Poetry, Kenyon Review Online, Ploughshares, The Nation, The New York Times, and… Read more »

Ultraviolet Chimera

Ned Balbo - Ultraviolet Chimera

Ned Balbo’s books include The Cylburn Touch-Me-Nots (New Criterion Poetry Prize) and 3 Nights of the Perseids (Richard Wilbur Award), both published in 2019. The Trials of Edgar Poe and Other Poems… Read more »

Vacancy Inspection, East Deep Run Road

Matt Hohner - Vacancy Inspection, East Deep Run Road

Matt Hohner (MFA Naropa University) has been nominated for a Pushcart and Best of the Net award and has won multiple international poetry competitions. He has held two residencies at the Virginia… Read more »

Xenia, or Pizza in Pompeii

Jane Satterfield - Xenia, or Pizza in Pompeii

Jane Satterfield has published five poetry books, including The Badass Brontës, a winner of the Diode Editions Poetry Prize, Apocalypse Mix (Autumn House Poetry Prize), Her Familiars, and Assignation… Read more »

I Look Good in Debt

Sara Burge

I didn't pay the bills again. The calls are crowding, collecting again. Didn’t translate the car's sounds. Didn't smell the roof cracking. Didn't hear the basement's black water creep in, so my skin buds mildew. My clothes green and stink. Fear threatens, debt backhands but I ignore their bad manners, ignore till paralysis seizes fingers, jawbone, till my legs halt their kicking, my soft parts pinken till I lie down and wonder which tunnel leads out. If there's wheat in the fields. If dollars might breed if I lay them together and turn on some Prince. If a haircut could help me. If a workout would save me. If wonder itself costs an arm and a leg.