★ Literature
Summer Flu by Carabella Sands
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
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
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
1 i am sitting in a moon base eating something dry that is flavored like banana and this thing the…
Poetry Month Recommendations
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
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
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
“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
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
Have you ever been so tired you wanted to collapse into a puddle and suck your thumb? As a raging…
Fiction: Lowell Silverstein
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
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
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
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
Email: September 20, 2012 By Tracy Dimond I am trying to figure out ways to distract myself. I made…
Super Bowl at the Copycat Building
By Jared Fischer…
Baltimore Review: Winter Issue
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)
Photograph by Erin Ouslander Wallflower (For Eva Hesse) by Jenny O’Grady I’m swinging from a net on the…
February Literature Roundup
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
The Baltimore Textbook was a senior thesis project by Becky Slogeris, which “attempts to connect Baltimore youth with their…
