LPR is excited to share our new winter edition on January 26th. Please read ahead for the editor’s note along with which authors will be attending and reading their works at the launch. In 1941, the French composer Olivier Messiaen composed Quatuor pour le fin duTemps (Quartet for the End ofTime) while imprisoned at the German prison […]
Read More…Join Little Patuxent Review and the Howard County Poetry and Literature Society (HoCoPoLitSo) in celebrating our Winter 2025 Launch and the Society’s 50th anniversary! We are excited to have HocoPoLitSo celebrate their 50th anniversary with us and our readership. Their celebration has been named “Beyond Words, Beyond Borders” which feels like the perfect term for […]
Read More…This essay was originally published on August 8, 2013. It is being re-shared in support of LPR’s 10th Anniversary celebration. A journal such as ours requires a vibrant literary and artistic environment to thrive—and even survive. In appreciation of the various cultural entities around us, we present “Meet the Neighbors,” a series where we provide you with personal […]
Read More…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 13, 2014. It is being re-shared in support of LPR’s 10th Anniversary celebration. Jesse Paris Smith and Patti Smith at The Noguchi Museum (Photo: Patrick McMullan Company, 2012)The subject of intergenerational performers has been dear to my heart since I learned that my maternal grandmother’s family had broadcast a live […]
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