Depending on the shine of light or the turn of a page, author Edith Pearlman shifts from the point of view of a lost six-year-old girl to an addict of a drug made from a Brazilian beetle. From a fed-up cancer patient to a pair of shop-lifting geezers to a Jewish student of Japanese. She’s a […]
Read More…Audacity and I had a test of wills a few weeks ago. On a whim, I’d signed up my teenaged son, my brother–eight years my junior–and myself for a mud run. We had eight weeks to train for the run, my first 5K, but there was no way to prepare for the obstacles: walls, nets, […]
Read More…Writers agonize over the every word, then painstakingly revise and edit. And visual artists tend to communicate best at the preverbal level. So the prospect of having to spew spontaneous utterances at the behest of a stranger can be unnerving. While some grin and bear it, others find a better way to bare their souls: fabricating […]
Read More…One sunny day last September, poet Truth Thomas, guest editor of our Winter 2012 Social Justice issue, sat down to talk with his mentor and friend Tony Medina on the front porch of the Molly Bannakay House on the grounds of the Benjamin Banneker Historical Park & Museum in Oella, Maryland. The interview, which you can view below, […]
Read More…As part of the lead-up to the launch of the Winter 2012 Social Justice issue, Little Patuxent Review sponsored the Poets for Social Change panel at the Baltimore Book Festival, moderated by the guest editor for the issue, Truth Thomas. Afterward, LPR Editor Laura Shovan continued the conversation with one of the panelists, Kathleen Hellen. Here’s some of what they had […]
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