Author Archives: Patricia Jakovich VanAmburg

About Patricia Jakovich VanAmburg

Patricia teaches literature and creative writing at Howard Community College in Columbia, Maryland. Her work appears in the Little Patuxent Review, the Maryland Writer's Anthology, "Love in Me Like Grass on Fire" and a chapbook titled "Courted by Snakes and Swans." A second chapbook, "Bird Feeder" is scheduled for summer 2013.

Book Review: Elisavietta Ritchie’s Feathers or Love on the Wing

Posted on March 3, 2013

Both bird and people watchers can catch colorful glimpses in Elisavietta Ritchie’s new chapbook Feathers or Love on the Wing. In this volume, Ritchie transforms birds and nature into metaphors for living, loving and dying. Ritchie’s poems appear against full-page watercolors … Continue reading →

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An “Excellent” Experiment

Posted on February 8, 2012

For my 2011-12 learning improvement project at Howard Community College, I wanted to go textless in my creative writing class. I knew that I could post materials for theory, genres and writing elements in our online supplemental classroom. But what … Continue reading →

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