This essay was originally published on February 13, 2013. It is being re-shared in support of LPR’s 10th Anniversary celebration. Music starts with sound and silence. As such, music and literature likely arose as a single entity. Even as the two drew apart, they maintained a continuum, causing Alphonse de Lamartine to state, “Music is the literature of […]
Read More…This essay was originally published on May 22, 2013. It is being re-shared in support of LPR’s 10th Anniversary celebration. My first memory of a structured music environment comes from the fourth grade at Nativity, a Catholic school in Washington, D.C. The overexuberant nun insisted that we bend our thumbs at a ninety-degree angle, open […]
Read More…Along with publishing emerging writers, one of the public roles and great pleasures of an independent, small literary journal is to nominate individual poems, essays, and stories for awards like the Pushcart Prize. This is one more way to say “thank you,” to the hard working writers, without whom LPR wouldn’t exist. These nominations also […]
Read More…This essay was originally published on May 14, 2012. It is being re-shared in support of LPR’s 10th Anniversary celebration. This is what I wanted to do with my own stories: line up the right words, the precise images, as well as the exact and correct punctuation so that the reader got pulled in and […]
Read More…This essay was originally published on January 16, 2015. It is being re-shared in support of LPR’s 10th Anniversary celebration. “I only know the joy of diving into the pure and essential world of the story.” ~ Kris Faatz A few days ago, a writer friend and I traded sympathy about the process. She said, […]
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