Alyssa Cruz’s electrifying poem “Bedhog” appears in the current edition of LPR. (She/Her) is a Filipina-American poet, born and raised in the suburbs of the Pacific Northwest. Her work has appeared in Bricolage Journal, The Atlanta Review, and Beyond Words, among others. In 2018, Alyssa was awarded the Dan Veach Prize for Younger Poets. She […]
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Jan Van Der Veen’s short story, “Dithy’s Mother” appeared in the Summer 2020 edition of LPR. Q: How did you become a writer? I was born in Medan, a city on Sumatra, in Indonesia. When I was three, my mother, my older sister and I travelled some twelve thousand miles to join my father in […]
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I just got in from a bit of New Year’s forest bathing, and while meandering through the trees I couldn’t stop thinking about the images and characters in Jessica Fordham Kidd’s debut poetry collection, Bad Jamie. Longtime Little Patuxent Review readers may remember Bad Jamie from Kidd’s poem “Ye Gethsemane” in our Summer 2016 issue. […]
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I have a confession: I was meant to write this review of Raising King in September. Time got away from me in this bizarre, pandemic isolation vortex we all find ourselves in, but in all honesty, I’m gad I waited to read this collection. Is there a more appropriate time for Joseph Ross’ manuscript than […]
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The season of celebration in the Little Patuxent Review community continues! Morgan Christie, whose short story “The Panther” appears in our Summer 2019 issue, has her first full-length short story collection coming out next month. These Bodies, which author MK Roney says are “written with empathy, subtlety, and just a little bit of magic,” will […]
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