Book Review: Tara Hart’s The Colors of Absence
Tara Hart shows her first chapbook. If the poetry in Tara Hart’s chapbook The Colors of Absence does nothing else, it should impel parents to reach out for their children, remembering to be grateful...
View ArticleHow To Listen So Writers Will Talk
Susan at the Music issue launch, for which she interview Marie Howe. (Photo: E. Q. Tennant) As a child, I rode everywhere on trains – Chicago, New York, even San Francisco, and that’s a darn long time...
View ArticleWhen words save
As a literature person, I often feel like the church lady at the door: “Hello, I’m here to tell you about a book that can save your life.” Slam. But sometimes, someone lets you in, and sometimes,...
View ArticleWhat’s next for audacious editor?
Laura Shovan. Photo credit: Karen Leigh Studios. When Laura Shovan wrote her editor’s note for the Little Patuxent Review issue on audacity, she ended it with the lines: “This is the real draw of...
View ArticleA Cool, Dark Make Believe World Under Our Grandmothers’ Tables
This post was originally published on June 11, 2013. Susan Thornton Hobby Under my great-grandma Coley’s ornate dining room table, I made the first make believe world that I can remember. The table’s...
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