Winter 2021 Issue Launch

We may not be able to gather in person, but we’re still thrilled to celebrate the launch of our new issue. The Winter 2021 issue features work from fourteen incredible poets, four short stories, five creative nonfiction pieces, and original artwork from photographer s.e.a. The new issue is available in print or as a digital […]

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Concerning Craft: Why I take my poems to critique groups

Lois Marie Harrod’s Spat will be published in May 2021. Her seventeenth collection, Woman, won the 2020 Blue Lyra Prize. Nightmares of the Minor Poet appeared in June 2016 (Five Oaks); her chapbook And She Took the Heart, in January 2016; Fragments from the Biography of Nemesis and How Marlene Mae Longs for Truth (Dancing Girl Press) appeared in 2013. A Dodge poet, she is published in literary journals […]

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Save the date: Winter 2021 issue launches January 31

The latest issue of Little Patuxent Review is almost here! We’re just putting the finishing touches on the Winter 2021 issue, and we’re so looking forward to sharing it with you. You could throw a dart at this issue and get a win. There are just so many strong pieces! And really diverse perspectives. Chelsea Lemon Fetzer, […]

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Meet our contributors: Q&A with Dallas Crow

Dallas Crow’s poem “Duet in the Third Person” is one of my favorites in our Summer 2020 issue. I love the form and the rhythm, a call-and-answer that depicts the unspooling of a relationship. Recently, Dallas was kind enough to answer some questions about his work. Q: Where did the inspiration for “Duet in the […]

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Review: Jessica Fordham Kidd’s “Bad Jamie”

I just got in from a bit of New Year’s forest bathing, and while meandering through the trees I couldn’t stop thinking about the images and characters in Jessica Fordham Kidd’s debut poetry collection, Bad Jamie. Longtime Little Patuxent Review readers may remember Bad Jamie from Kidd’s poem “Ye Gethsemane” in our Summer 2016 issue. […]

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