“Proscenium Arch,” an essay by Steven Leyva, is available on the Washington Independent Review of Books website at this link. Leyva wonders what “makes theater arts a home for misfits and nerds, the ambitious and the reclusive, the energetic and the contemplative,” and suggests that it’s “the grandeur and mystery of how a few lines on […]
Read More…Little Patuxent Review hosted its annual reading of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry on March 17 at The Writer’s Center in Bethesda. Below are some photos of our readers, including contributors to our most recent issue, four members of the Black Ladies Brunch Collective, LPR editors, and Ian Anderson, the editor of Mason Jar Press, an independent press in Baltimore. Maria Termini […]
Read More…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…This past Sunday, Little Patuxent Review celebrated 10 years of publication by hosting a reading at The Writer’s Center. Thank you to The Writer’s Center and everyone who attended and made the event a success. Readers included Steven Leyva who introduced each speaker, but also read a selection of his own work, several poems and […]
Read More…When Shaileen Beyer of the Enoch Pratt Free Library contacted Little Patuxent Review to inquire if we’d be interested in partnering on a statewide poetry contest for a fourth year, we jumped at the opportunity. By the time the contest concluded on March 1, 300 entries from 93 cities and towns, representing 22 counties plus Baltimore City, were submitted in the blind contest. Little […]
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