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 Madeleine Mysko. A registered nurse, she is also a poet, short story writer and novelist. She teaches creative writing both privately and as part of The Johns Hopkins […]
Read More…In the Twenty-First Century, the rate of black unemployment is double that of whites in America, and a new Jim Crow exists where there are more black men in jail than were enslaved before the Civil War. Poems that address that pain are no less legitimate than poems about flowers. In the context of creative writing, everyone has something […]
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 Susan Muaddi Darraj, fiction writer, critic and editor. She is an Associate Professor of English at Harford Community College, a Lecturer in the graduate writing program at 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 first-time contributor, poet Naomi Thiers. Naomi grew up in Pittsburgh but has lived in the Washington, DC area since 1980. In 1993, her first book of poetry, Only […]
Read More…With the Little Patuxent Review published mere minutes away from Howard Community College and faculty members frequently contributing content, it was only natural our journal made its way into the classrooms there. At first, it was the teachers who took the initiative. “In my creative writing class last fall and in honors literature seminars before that, I’ve regularly […]
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