Peter Marcus is one of our featured poets in the Winter 2017 issue. He has graciously allowed us to reprint his poem here. Black Light for Etheridge Knight after Terrance Hayes Count those living a locked-up life who sleep with one eye open, always open. Black is the horse running from the fires. Ka-toum Ka-toum, […]
Read More…Thank you to Publisher Emeritus, Mike Clark, for this blog post on the LPR Salon Series. If you have any interest in mythology, jazz, classical Indian dance, folklore, the Big Bang Theory, the fate of the Whooping Crane, a refugee’s escape from a war-torn country, Baroque music performed on reed instruments, the historic mission […]
Read More…The LPR staff is pleased to welcome our new poetry reader and my friend, Kyle Graber. I met Kyle my sophomore year of college, and amidst many of our similar interests, we found that poetry provided us with a common bond. Over the years, I’ve asked him to edit many of my poems, and here […]
Read More…Three years ago, Laura Shovan called me to offer the position of Editor of the Little Patuxent Review. I was, of course, both flabbergasted and flattered, having only recently been published in LPR through the Enoch Pratt Free Poetry Contest (1st runner up). Laura and I didn’t know each other well, but I knew her […]
Read More…Robin Talbert serves as one of LPR’s nonfiction reviewers and graciously granted us permission to reprint her essay. Talbert offers us a lot to consider about making our society more just, welcoming, and inclusive. Byline: By Robin Talbert, Reprinted from The Charlotte Observer When I was growing up in the 1950s and ’60s in the […]
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