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It’s Wrong to Want to Be Raptured
July 7, 2013
R.M. O'Brien affords us an opportunity to ponder downside of rapture and the parallels between Satan and Glen Beck.…
Novel Excerpt from Jessica Anya Blau
July 1, 2013
Local author Jessica Anya Blau’s dark and funny new novel, The Wonder Bread Summer, out now from Harper Perennial, has been…
Poetry: Ashtray Mouth by Matthew Falk
June 24, 2013
Ashtray Mouth I swear, she makes me want to change my name. When she puts on her face, I…
Poetry: 2 by Matthew Zingg
June 13, 2013
Two poems, each an escape into wistful rumination, events that we've heard of but couldn't have actually seen. …
Poetry: 3 By Jessica Lynn Dotson
June 6, 2013
Church of the Penny Poker Redeemer I learned to read a man’s bluff stacking pennies, pushing the ante forward and…
Poetry: 3. Une Graine (Excerpted from Lux Light Lumiere) by Jesse Mitchell
May 30, 2013
3. Une Graine Ambulances and cars slam screaming, moon soaked, through the hard streets baked clean by the sun all…
Fiction: Occupy Baltimore by CL Bledsoe
May 23, 2013
They made their way out of the parking deck into the frigid air. Henry dawdled at the rear behind…
Poetry: news by Jared T. Fischer
May 16, 2013
news we don’t give ourselves enough credit for not being violent: old lady in the library reading tolstoy; the family…
Re: Email: September 20, 2012
May 9, 2013
After Tracy Dimond I’m glad to hear that you’ve been taking care of yourself. My body is the…
Fiction: Ringo Starr is a Beautiful Man by Dave K.
May 2, 2013
When our dog died, my dad told us he would get another dog for the house. My brother Pete had…
Where To From Out
April 29, 2013
Where To From Out is Chris Mason’s latest charming, informative, deeply human and deeply humane autobiography through his life’s travels. What better…
Poetry: 2 poems by Lori Markland
April 23, 2013
Burying the hatchets They’re all about heroics, these skeletons—showing up on Saturdays for dinner and a nap. They might…
Summer Flu by Carabella Sands
April 18, 2013
Summer Flu I was wearing the new dress My prettiest When my boyfriend’s sickness Took me I was petting…
On Artichoke Haircut and the Things They Do
April 17, 2013
One of Baltimore’s coolest literature magazines is Artichoke Haircut, a small-format production that fits nicely in your hand and reads nicely…
Poetry: Excerpt from 23 Fragments by Erik Pecukonis
April 11, 2013
XII. Wilderness ‘The last mist rolled over the city,’ serves a purpose to us both. The light, again, comes…
Four Poems by Stephen Michael McDowell
April 4, 2013
1 i am sitting in a moon base eating something dry that is flavored like banana and this thing the…
Poetry Month Recommendations
April 2, 2013
April is Poetry Month, so I asked some local writers to recommend poems that you can read online. There’s a…
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…
