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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...

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Concerning 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...

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Thoughts 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...

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Audacious 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...

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Book 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...

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Book 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...

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Music 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...

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Science 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”...

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Unleashing 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...

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A 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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