Writing Past Taboo: The Truth Thomas Poetry Workshop
Truth Thomas (Photo: Melanie Henderson) In the Twenty-First Century, the rate of black unemployment is double that of whites in America, and a new Jim Crow exists where there are more black men in jail...
View ArticleConcerning Craft: Henry Niese (and William Carlos Williams)
The “Concerning Craft” series introduces Little Patuxent Review contributors, showcases their work and draws back the curtain to reveal a little of what went into producing it. In this case, that...
View ArticleThoughts on Social Justice
On January 28, Little Patuxent Review will launch the Social Justice issue, guest-edited by poet Truth Thomas, at Oliver’s Carriage House in Columbia, MD. In celebration of the release, I was invited...
View ArticleAudacious Ideas: Housing Artists
Audacity defines the best and worst within us. It is boldness or daring, accompanied by confident or arrogant disregard for personal safety, conventional thought or other restrictions. It is also...
View ArticleBook Review: Dan Gutstein’s Bloodcoal & Honey
Dan Gutstein’s award-winning book (Cover design: Justin Sirois) When I find myself unaccountably crying as I reach the end of a collection of poems, when the combined weight of the poet’s felt human...
View ArticleBook Review: Truth Thomas’s Speak Water
Truth’s new poetry book I live in an 1830s mill worker’s house on the Patapsco River in the picture-postcard part of Ellicott City, MD. A year ago, Truth Thomas, guest editor for our Winter 2012 Social...
View ArticleMusic Makers: Van Morrison
Those familiar with our Winter 2008 Nature issue know that Michael Oberman is an accomplished nature photographer. His “Truce…Great Blue Heron and Red-Winged Blackbird” appears on the cover, and other...
View ArticleScience and Revelation: The DC Science Café
Ivan Amato “The scientific story, to me, is the greatest story ever told,” Ivan Amato says to me. “It’s a revelatory thing, scientific discovery.” Ivan isn’t just talking about a scientist’s “eureka”...
View ArticleUnleashing Monsters: The DC Youth Slam Team
Jonathan Tucker Jonathan Tucker is a transformative power on this planet. As a freshman, lost and lonely in a large student population at University of Maryland, I found my home at the Jiménez-Porter...
View ArticleA Safe Space for Students: The Jiménez-Porter Writers’ House
As a sophomore at the University of Maryland, I joined the Jiménez-Porter Writers’ House, a living-learning program that puts students interested in creative writing in one dormitory and conducts...
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