Three years ago, Laura Shovan called me to offer the position of Editor of the Little Patuxent Review. I was, of course, both flabbergasted and flattered, having only recently been published in LPR through the Enoch Pratt Free Poetry Contest (1st runner up). Laura and I didn’t know each other well, but I knew her […]
Read More…Robin Talbert serves as one of LPR’s nonfiction reviewers and graciously granted us permission to reprint her essay. Talbert offers us a lot to consider about making our society more just, welcoming, and inclusive. Byline: By Robin Talbert, Reprinted from The Charlotte Observer When I was growing up in the 1950s and ’60s in the […]
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The LPR staff and board are happy to welcome Julia Gerhardt as our new online editor. Julia worked as an intern for us and volunteered as a poetry reader from August 2016 to May 2017. Desiree Magney, our co-publisher, and I met her when we all worked at the AWP conference in February of this […]
Read More…This interview was originally published on September 11, 2015. It is being re-shared in support of LPR’s 10th Anniversary celebration. Note: All the men’s names have been changed to preserve their anonymity. I didn’t know what to expect when Linda Moghadam and I visited the men’s writing group at the Patuxent Institute. I had a […]
Read More…This interview was originally published on October 30, 2015. It is being re-shared in support of LPR’s 10th Anniversary celebration. Grace Cavalieri is just as comfortable in the kitchen making gnocchi with spinach and mushrooms as she is in the radio studio interviewing, Juan Felipe Herrera, the new Poet Laureate of the United States. When […]
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