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 Idaho, 43rd state.) Naturally, the tour started in Delaware, the first state to sign the US […]

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Meet the Neighbors: Enoch Pratt Free Library

A journal like Little Patuxent Review requires a vibrant literary and artistic community to thrive–and even survive. In appreciation of the cultural entities around us, we present “Meet the Neighbors,” where we provide you with some personal introductions. Recently, Little Patuxent Review partnered with Enoch Pratt Free Library in Baltimore, MD to put on a […]

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Thoughts on Social Justice

On January 28, Little Patuxent Review will launch the Social Justice issue, guest-edited by poet Truth Thomas, at Oliver’s Carriage House in Columbia, MD. In celebration of the release, I was invited to share my thoughts on the upcoming issue and social justice. I wrote this on January 16, Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. King would have […]

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On Being Invisible: Our Nation’s Incarcerated

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. Not long ago, I learned that Russia has the third highest incarceration rate in the […]

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Meet the Neighbors: the 3:17am Blog

A journal like Little Patuxent Review requires a vibrant literary and artistic community to thrive–and even survive. In appreciation of the cultural entities around us, we present “Meet the Neighbors,” where we provide you with some personal introductions. Please meet George Clack of Columbia, MD, co-publisher of the literary blog 3:17am. You’re being introduced to […]

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