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Author Archives: Laura Shovan
What Sets Us Apart: LPR at AWP
Nothing helps a literary journal clarify its personality like trying to stand out at the Association of Writers & Writing Programs conference. The annual AWP get-together is one of the largest of its kind. This year’s event, held in the … Continue reading
In the Face of Doubt and Uncertainty: LPR Cover Art Selection
It was a beautiful weekend for the Baltimore Book Festival. My parents were in town, enjoying the bookstalls. The great weather meant huge crowds at the food trucks, though, so we ducked into the Walters Café for lunch. While my father enjoyed … Continue reading
Posted in Art Exhibits, Baltimore Book Festival, Baltimore MD, Doubt, Eras, Painting, Renaissance, The Walters Art Museum, Urbino Italy
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Audacity, 50s Style: Part 3
(Final installment, continued from Parts 1 and 2) “There’s a certain section of the population that thinks if you’re gay, you’re a pervert,” Carla Mandley informed me. I was speaking with her and Jo Kellum. The two women, both in … Continue reading
Posted in Audacity, Baltimore MD, Blogs, Essays, LGBT, Literary Journals, Music, Rockabilly, Social Justice, The Fifties, The Sixties, Writing
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Audacity, 50s Style: Part 2
(Continued from “Audacity, 50s Style: Part 1″) I met Jo Kellum of the Roc-A-Jets, Baltimore’s first all-girl band, in January. The Ravens still had hopes of going to the Super Bowl, and Jo’s East Baltimore neighborhood was festooned with purple … Continue reading
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Audacity, 50s Style: Part 1
Jo Kellum is one of the most audacious people I know. Not in terms of the look-at-me audacity of celebrity culture, where luminaries wear meat dresses or overturn tables on TV to grab attention. Kellum is quietly and unapologetically herself. … Continue reading
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Our Memorable Audacity Issue
Audacity and I had a test of wills a few weeks ago. On a whim, I’d signed up my teenaged son, my brother–eight years my junior–and myself for a mud run. We had eight weeks to train for the run, … Continue reading
Posted in Audacity, Blog Posts, Blogs, Books, Columbia MD, Craft, Essays, Interviews, Literary Journals, Painting, Poetry, Publishing, Readings, Short Fiction, Towson University, Visual Arts, Writing
Tagged Art Exhibits, Audacity, Blogs, Books, Craft, Editors, Essays, Fiction, Interviews, Literary Journals, Literature, Painting, Poetry, Publishing, Short Fiction, Visual Art, Writing
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How Baptisms are Done in Mississippi: Pratt Poetry Contest
Last fall, Lisa Greenhouse of the Enoch Free Pratt Library contacted Little Patuxent Review. Would we be interested in partnering with the library on a statewide poetry contest? LPR had never sponsored a contest, but this one was appealing. We liked … Continue reading
A Day with the Editors, A Night at a Reading
It takes audacity and faith in yourself to begin sending work out to publications. We received several submissions from local teens, all for our upcoming Audacity issue. I tracked down these young writers to Corey O’Brien’s Advanced Composition class at … Continue reading
Book Review: JoAnn Balingit’s Forage
Like many Poetry Friday regulars, I often assign myself a blog project for National Poetry Month. In 2010, I took readers on virtual road trip around the United States, profiling each state’s poet laureate. (I made it as far as … Continue reading
Posted in Blog Posts, Book Reviews, Delaware, Families, Fathers, Immigrants, Mothers, National Poetry Month, Nature, Parents, Personal History, Poet Laureate, Poetry, Poets, Readings, Republic of the Philippines, Social Justice, Writing
Tagged Blogs, Book Reviews, Books, Immigrants, Literary Journals, Philippines, Poet Laureate, Poetry, Poets, Publishing, Social Justice, Writing
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Art, Inside and Out
“How does a young painter today make peace with an art world in which photography and image-mediated reality reign supreme, an art world supposedly after the end of Modernism, in which self-reflexive art-historical irony is all the rage?” Michael Salcman, … Continue reading
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