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Excerpt from Participants, by Andrew Keating
March 27, 2013
Identify Variables When you see a person smoking, does the smoking: a) increase the person’s attractiveness to you; b) decrease…
An Interview with author Michael Kimball
March 25, 2013
Michael Kimball’s new book is called Michael Kimball Writes Your Life Story (On a Postcard). It’s fresh out from Mud Luscious…
RIP “Blaster” Al Ackerman
March 21, 2013
“Blaster” Al Ackerman died on Sunday. He was a general in Baltimore’s literary avant garde—though it occurs to me that assigning…
Microfiction: 4 Pieces by Joseph Young
March 19, 2013
2 Stands He walked west, harrowing the road. He was bareheaded. Meanwhile, she sailed the lake, eating of the small…
4th Annual Publications & Multiples Fair
March 14, 2013
Have you ever been so tired you wanted to collapse into a puddle and suck your thumb? As a raging…
Fiction: Lowell Silverstein
March 7, 2013
Nostalgia By Lowell Silverstein The other day, I read a journal that I wrote four years ago. One of the…
Michael Kimball Writes Your Life Story
February 28, 2013
Baltimore’s favorite softball slugger/novelist, Michael Kimball, has a new book out called Michael Kimball Writes Your Life Story (On a…
The Baltimore Reader with Bill Hughes
February 21, 2013
If you go to any literary events around Baltimore, you’re bound to run into Bill Hughes; he’s the guy with…
Fiction: 2 Stories by Meg Pokrass
February 21, 2013
By Meg Pokrass Keds I had a strange awake-dream during labor. It started with Barney, checking out holes in my…
Poetry: Email: September 20, 2012
February 14, 2013
Email: September 20, 2012 By Tracy Dimond I am trying to figure out ways to distract myself. I made…
Baltimore Review: Winter Issue
February 11, 2013
The winter issue of The Baltimore Review went live on February 2. The spring issue of The Baltimore Review went live on May 1. Publishing since 1996, steadfast but never stodgy,…
Poetry: Wallflower (For Eva Hesse)
February 7, 2013
Photograph by Erin Ouslander Wallflower (For Eva Hesse) by Jenny O’Grady I’m swinging from a net on the…
February Literature Roundup
February 6, 2013
It’s February and when it’s February I always think of Shane Jones’s imaginative book Light Boxes, in which the month…
The Baltimore Textbook
December 19, 2012
The Baltimore Textbook was a senior thesis project by Becky Slogeris, which “attempts to connect Baltimore youth with their…
Electric Jesus
April 25, 2012
Last week was Jonathan Talat Phillips’ second visit to Saint Mark’s Church on 36th Street in Hampden hosted by Breathe…
Baltimore Bibliophilia
September 28, 2011
It’s difficult to say which is more potent. The brightly-colored balloons, the smell of freshly powdered funnel-cake and overpriced veggie…
Publication and Multiples Fair
April 13, 2011
Jimmy MacMillan of Friends Records, which used artwork found at a similar fair for the label's first release, said after…
