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 Museum and the remarkable founder, director and principal curator, Rebecca Alban Hoffberger. Not only was the […]
Read More…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 University of Maryland. He is Editor-in-Chief of the University’s literary journal Stylus and also an avid musician. […]
Read More…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 should I do about providing my students with the necessary models of creative writing? I […]
Read More…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. Compared to others in the developed world, the United States is a young nation. Only […]
Read More…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 in our Summer 2010 Spirituality issue, for a Pushcart Prize and-–saints alive!–it won one. Tara’s 20-line […]
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