Concerning Craft – Little Patuxent Review

Meet Our Fiction Editor: Q&A with Lisa Lynn Biggar

Lisa Lynn Biggar received her MFA in Fiction from Vermont College. Her poetry and short fiction have appeared in numerous literary journals, including Main Street Rag, Bluestem Magazine, The Minnesota Review, Kentucky Review, The Delmarva Review, Litro Magazine, Superstition Review and Pithead Chapel. She’s the fiction editor for Little Patuxent Review and co-owns and operates a cut flower farm on the eastern shore […]

by wendy ruth walker

Meet the Board: Q&A with Ned Tillman

This week’s guest interview was done by LPR’s social media coordinator, George Clack. Ned Tillman, LPR’s newest board member, is an environmental scientist and author. For 27 years Ned, who lives in Columbia, headed various environmental and energy firms, and he has served on many advisory councils for local governments on sustainability issues. He’s published […]

by wendy ruth walker

Concerning Craft: Unpunctured Verse

This month our guest essay is by current LPR contributor Bee Morris. ˜ Mastery of any craft is a rare yet intensely desirable thing. I think of my poetry as a muscle, aninstrument— something that must be stretched and made limber, must be practiced in order toachieve its full range of sound and beauty. Few […]

by wendy ruth walker

Spotlight on Poets: Cate McGowan

Cate McGowan is an essayist, poet, fiction writer, and author of two books. Most recently, her poetry appears in the Summer 2022 issue of LPR. Click here to read her poem “Ineffable” *Art by the painter John Constable, “Rainstorm Over Sea.”

by wendy ruth walker

Keeping it in the House: The art and necessity of exploring virtue and villainy in our writings about home.

Don’t miss Kiese Laymon’s Masterclass, KEEPING IT IN THE HOUSE: The art and necessity of exploring virtue and villainy in our writings about home. Laymon is the author of the genre-bending novel, Long Division and the essay collection, How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America. His bestselling memoir, Heavy: An American Memoir, won the 2019 Andrew Carnegie Medal for […]