★ Literature
A Good Day by Marcus Speh
I panicked after I told Steven that I would read a story out loud at our next writing group meeting.…
Poetry: Lauren Bender and Stephanie Barber
look at the camera now tilt your head to the left act like you’re crying…
Poetry: 2 by Boona Daroom
Playing With Rockets Mother frisbees palm frond. Laced flabellum cut too thick. Factory boss geeks wave like a…
This Year in Jerusalem
Liam gave me a push. Suddenly he was roaring with laughter and spouting Monty Python lines. “You Americans always know…
It’s Wrong to Want to Be Raptured
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
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
Ashtray Mouth I swear, she makes me want to change my name. When she puts on her face, I…
Poetry: 2 by Matthew Zingg
Two poems, each an escape into wistful rumination, events that we've heard of but couldn't have actually seen. …
Fun Interview: Camp with Gabe Durham
Gabe Durham is the author of FUN CAMP, the new “novel” (told in monologues, speeches, soliloquies, letters and lists) about…
Poetry: 3 By Jessica Lynn Dotson
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
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
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
news we don’t give ourselves enough credit for not being violent: old lady in the library reading tolstoy; the family…
Talking Parlor, NaPoWriMo with Sarah Jean Alexander
Parlor is an online journal run by Sarah Jean Alexander, a Baltimore writer and bartender. It’s unique, with a collaborative…
Re: Email: September 20, 2012
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.
When our dog died, my dad told us he would get another dog for the house. My brother Pete had…
Where To From Out
Where To From Out is Chris Mason’s latest charming, informative, deeply human and deeply humane autobiography through his life’s travels. What better…
The French Conniption: When a Chip Chop Drill Kills
As you could surmise from my rambling inaugural What Weekly piece Wrestlin’ With Baltimore (if you happened to catch it – and if…
Poetry: 2 poems by Lori Markland
Burying the hatchets They’re all about heroics, these skeletons—showing up on Saturdays for dinner and a nap. They might…
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