Michael Downs
Open House

Michael Downs - Open House

Creative Nonfiction
Michael Downs moved from Montana to Baltimore in 2007 to teach creative writing at Towson University, where he now directs the graduate program in professional writing. He has published three books,… Read more »
Steven Leyva
How Our Sons Learned to Fight

Steven Leyva - How Our Sons Learned to Fight

Poetry
Steven Leyva was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, and raised in Houston, Texas. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in 2 Bridges Review, Scalawag, Nashville Review, jubilat, Vinyl, and Prairie… Read more »
Kathleen Hellen
Trail, cleft

Kathleen Hellen - Trail, cleft

Poetry
Kathleen Hellen is the author of The Only Country was the Color of My Skin, the award-winning collection Umberto’s Night, and two chapbooks, The Girl Who Loved Mothra and Pentimento. Featured on… Read more »
Linette Marie Allen
Old Testament on West Preston

Linette Marie Allen - Old Testament on West Preston

Poetry
Linette Marie Allen is earning an MFA in Creative Writing & Publishing Arts at the University of Baltimore. Recipient of a Betty Tarpley Turner Research and Travel Award for Poetry, she recently… Read more »
Jim Beane
Close to Her Heart

Jim Beane - Close to Her Heart

Fiction
Jim Beane’s stories have appeared in numerous literary magazines, and the anthologies DC Noir and Workers Write: Tales from the Construction Site, winner of the 2017 Tillie Olsen Award for Creative… Read more »
Kris Faatz
Stealing Glads

Kris Faatz - Stealing Glads

Fiction
Kris Faatz is a pianist and writer from Baltimore. Her short fiction has appeared in various journals including Kenyon Review Online, Reed, and 100 Word Story, and has received recognition in… Read more »
Leslie Harrison
Fortune

Leslie Harrison - Fortune

Poetry
Leslie Harrison's second book, The Book of Endings (Akron 2017) was a finalist for the National Book Award. Her first book, Displacement (Mariner 2009) won the Bakeless Prize in poetry. Recent poems… Read more »
Grace Cavalieri
The Poem as a Pie

Grace Cavalieri - The Poem as a Pie

Essay

Grace Cavalieri is Maryland Poet Laureate. She’s visiting all Maryland counties working with teen poets. Read more »
7 in the City
7 in the City

7 in the City - 7 in the City

Project

A Multimedia Journalism Project “7 in the City” is a multimedia journalism project that explores what it is like to be a 7-year-old growing up in Baltimore today. In the Fall of 2017, Johns… Read more »
Rachel E. Hicks
Accumulated Lessons in Displacement

Rachel E. Hicks - Accumulated Lessons in Displacement

Poetry
Rachel E. Hicks’s poetry has appeared in Little Patuxent Review, Relief, St. Katherine Review, Gulf Stream, and other journals. She won the 2019 Briar Cliff Review annual fiction contest, and her… Read more »

Old Testament on West Preston

Linette Marie Allen

There is a box of books, no Shelves & shelves of black Books that nobody ever touches. How that must feel— To never be Touched on the fly or Sniffed between the pages— Bent & smashed After a long autumn sigh Catching wind of Procida— That star resembling the night Blooming cereus. The Writer’s Chronicle is hotter To the touch, gets touched Out in the open, bursting Into bossy reds over pear glass Table— Coffee? Slick as pages of Roman Prosciutto, spread wild on God’s Greenest & highest hill Sides.
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