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What Audacity Looks Like

Posted on May 8, 2012 by
Marcel Duchamp

This gallery contains 22 photos.

The other day, I came across photographs of the audacious Russian street-art group Voina. What struck me most was how ordinary the members looked. They could have easily been any undergrads from any American campus. Yet, the Russian government has brought … Continue reading →

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Audacious Ideas: Bringing Back Serialized Literature

Posted on April 19, 2012 by

Audacity defines the best and worst within us. It is boldness or daring, accompanied by confident or arrogant disregard for personal safety, conventional thought or other restrictions. It is also effrontery, insolence or shamelessness. The “Audacious Ideas” essay series celebrates … Continue reading →

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How Baptisms are Done in Mississippi: Pratt Poetry Contest

Posted on April 10, 2012 by

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 →

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Audacious Ideas: Housing Artists

Posted on March 29, 2012 by
City Arts studio apartment

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Audacity defines the best and worst within us. It is boldness or daring, accompanied by confident or arrogant disregard for personal safety, conventional thought or other restrictions. It is also effrontery, insolence or shamelessness. The “Audacious Ideas” essay series celebrates … Continue reading →

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A Day with the Editors, A Night at a Reading

Posted on March 13, 2012 by

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 →

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Audacious Ideas: Postcard Life Stories

Posted on March 7, 2012 by

Audacity defines the best and worst within us. It is boldness or daring, accompanied by confident or arrogant disregard for personal safety, conventional thought or other restrictions. It is also effrontery, insolence or shamelessness. The “Audacious Ideas” essay series celebrates … Continue reading →

Posted in Baltimore MD, Blogs, Essays, Flash Fiction, Literary Journals, Memoirs, Novels, Performance Art, Postcard Life Stories Project, Publishing, Salman Rushdie, Short Fiction, Steven King, Transmodern Performance Festival, Writers, Writing | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , | 2 Comments

On Being Invisible: Our Nation’s Veterans

Posted on February 27, 2012 by

This essay is part of a series inspired by our Winter 2012 Social Justice issue. The first one was posted September 2011, and all feature people who have helped make marginalized segments of our world more visible to mainstream America through poetry, prose and visual art. … Continue reading →

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Audacious Ideas: Visionary Art

Posted on February 16, 2012 by
Rebecca Alban Hoffberger

This gallery contains 11 photos.

I love those times when I know precisely how to proceed. When starting the “Audacious Ideas” series dedicated to the Little Patuxent Review 2012 Summer Audacity issue, there was no doubt what I wanted to feature first: the American Visionary Art … Continue reading →

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Concerning Craft: Dylan Bargteil

Posted on February 14, 2012 by

The “Concerning Craft” series introduces Little Patuxent Review contributors, showcases their work and draws back the curtain to reveal a little of what went into producing it. Please meet Dylan Bargteil. Dylan is an undergraduate physics and math major at … Continue reading →

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LPR Nominates Six for Pushcart Prizes

Posted on January 26, 2012 by

As a young publication, Little Patuxent Review is more about publishing emerging writers and artists than about winning prizes. Still, toward the end of 2010, one of our contributing editors, Susan Thornton Hobby, nominated Tara Hart’s poem “Patronized,” which appeared … Continue reading →

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