There’s something fishy about the sonnet. It isn’t supposed to work anymore. Hayden Carruth admits as much in “Sonnet 9,” As a poet I don’t care for the stale remainder of conventional sonnetry and goes on to chastise himself (mid-sonnet) as “an absconder/and apostate in my era.” Yet something has driven him to “lean backward […]
Read More…A journal like Little Patuxent Review requires a vibrant literary and artistic community to thrive–and even survive. In appreciation of the cultural organizations around us, we present “Meet the Neighbors,” where we provide you with some personal introductions. These are tough times for literary journals. So when I heard the good news that our good […]
Read More…This story feels like an Escher drawing of hands drawing themselves: a blog post about a blog party in which writers talked about writing stories. On August 11, HoCoBlogs hosted a meet-up for writers at the Stanford Grill in Columbia, MD. Of the folks clustered on the patio, some were ex-newspaper types, some were soon-to-be-ex-newspaper types […]
Read More…A journal like the Little Patuxent Review requires a vibrant literary and artistic community to thrive–and even survive. In appreciation of the cultural organizations around us, we present “Meet the Neighbors,” where we provide you with some personal introductions. Please meet the Rep Stage, located at the Peter and Elizabeth Horowitz Visual and Performing Arts Center on […]
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