Exploring the Language of Love

When I met acupuncturist Dianne M. Connelly, I was a highly impressionable young woman dealing with tremendous spiritual dilemmas and an identity crisis brought on by years of being picked on for not being black enough and more than a decade of not being connected to a nuclear family. I was introduced to her by […]

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Truth Thomas Times Two

From Tennessee to the Gaza Strip, Truth Thomas’ genius lies in his ability to take us places where we’ve never been before…the message is always clear, the craft exquisite and masterful. –Randall Horton, author of The Lingua Franca of Ninth Street   Truth Thomas, one of our contributing editors, is on our Salon Series schedule […]

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Words in Time

One of the advantages of having data online is that it lowers the barrier to serendipity: you can stumble across something in these 500 billion words and be the first person ever to make that discovery. –The Official Google Blog, 12/16/2010 11:08:00 AM Only days after Google’s Books Ngram Viewer went live, I was hooked. […]

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Saints Alive, It’s a Pushcart Nomination

I did not write or share my own poems other than whimsically until a time in my life several years ago when I turned to poems and poets with urgency and a deep need.–Tara Hart On his gold-rimmed card, St. Gerard’s slim, wrinkle-free face gazes up to heaven. He died at 29 from tuberculosis, but […]

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The End of an Era

There was a time when we could not think of anyone but Michael R. Clark as editor of Little Patuxent Review, but now we must. As Clark began his third year in Singapore and his first as Chairman of the English Department at Singapore American School, he reluctantly resigned his position at LPR. Clark has graciously […]

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