This month our guest essay is by former LPR contributor Erica Plouffe Lazure whose debut collection of stories, Proof of Me, goes on sale next month. Preorder her book here. *Woman Sweeping, Edouard Vuillard, 1899. ~ One of my Bennington writing teachers likes to say that even the best writers can’t expect to craft brilliant […]
Read More…This guest post comes from Brionne Janae. Her poem, “Alternative Facts,” appeared in LPR‘s Summer Issue 2018 (available for purchase at this link). Janae is a poet living in Brooklyn, New York. She is a Hedgebrook and Vermont Studio Center alumni and proud Cave Canem Fellow. Her poetry and prose have been published in the American Poetry […]
Read More…Little Patuxent Review’s 2017 Michael J. Clark Award is given annually to an outstanding work of literature published in Little Patuxent Review. This year’s inaugural award is being granted to a work of fiction written by K. E. Butler entitled “The Laws of Motion in the Heavens and on the Earth,” published in the Summer […]
Read More…The Treitels Remembered A memoir to be published this week by Bloomsbury Publishing – The Geek’s Guide to the Writing Life: An Instructional Memoir for Prose Writers by Stephanie Vanderslice – features a reminiscence of Margot and Ralph Treitel, the Columbia couple who founded the Little Patuxent Review. Vanderslice, director of the Arkansas Writer’s MFA Workshop […]
Read More…Contributed by Mike Clark, Publisher Emeritus Poetry with a spirit of its own tends to find varying human forms of expression. Emily Dickinson, a recluse, wrote her metaphorical, magical poems in an upstairs Amherst bedroom. Wallace Stevens was an insurance executive who had “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird”. Walt Whitman, a news reporter, […]
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