It's no wonder the massive AWP Conference & Bookfair chose us as its homebase this year—Baltimore’s writing tradition is as rich and diverse as the city itself.
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It's no wonder the massive AWP Conference & Bookfair chose us as its homebase this year—Baltimore’s writing tradition is as rich and diverse as the city itself.
P.S.: I recommend this museum as someone who has lived in Bmore nearly 20 years. It's a cool place.
Take in some art! This is a great museum near the harbor, on the other side from the convention center. Walkable, but distant. Or Uber, etc. Then, poetry tonight at 8:30 at the Creative Alliance (definitely Uber distance). www.avam.org
image of a book cover featuring the red silhouette of a wolf with the words "american ending" in a Russian-fairy tale sort of font.
“Now I saw colors and knew I wouldn’t cry forever.”
– a #SundaySentence from Mary Kay Zuravleff's novel, AMERICAN ENDING.
Paws indicate the place that when reading the sentence you pause.
A black dog lying down, with its tail curled at the bottom of the frame and its torso curled gently through the middle, shaping a comma.
Dog comma. Also: dog, comma.
Usually my #SundaySentence comes from whatever book I'm reading, but @keflann.bsky.social's gnarly Olympian post beats anything else I've read this week.
There was another version?
Kidding.
I owned the 45-rpm version of Donna Summer's #MacArthurPark before it was 21st-century cool.
I was 12.
Beautiful skating by #AlysaLiu.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YptN...
Art vs. autocracy.
#ReneeGood
#AlexPretti
On this date in 1930, the #MississippiSheiks recorded the song of my fascination, a song of struggle, hope and resilience.
"Was all the summer / and all the fall / just trying to find my / little all 'n' all."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jviY...
In "Report," my newest essay published by The Missouri Review, a hidden painting comes to light in a Kraków courtyard and reveals much about children and war.
missourireview.com/report-by-mi...
"Oblivion," Levis wrote, with a heartbreaking wink, "would be nothing without us."
– a #SundaySentence from Elissa Gabbert's appreciation of a new volume collecting the poetry of Larry Levis.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/b...
"Gird your loins, Onion!"
I picked up a Huck Finn vibe, too. Glad you found it engrossing. I'm looking forward to rereading it this summer in preparation for teaching it in the fall.
An Oscar-nominated live-action short, based on a Turgenev short story, and featuring #ChrisSmither? Marking my calendar for Feb. 13.
deadline.com/2026/01/netf...
For Liam.
Light silhouettes branches through a window with a foreground of household items on a shelf, including a candle holder with four sticks and four white birds.
Winter light in Baltimore with white crows of Kraków.
If you ever get the chance, The Good Lord Bird by James McBride is a great novel. One of my faves.
Not a drama queen. Not even talky. Also, only 35 pounds at 1 year. A Husky combined with a G. Shepherd would lead to a bigger dog, I think.
Definitely the floof and coloring. And the foxy face.
The human society folks guessed Husky, too. Given her size, we thought maybe keeshond? She's got the spitz-y tail.
"still malty..." Brilliant.
A reminder from my alma mater.
#Journalism #FreePress #FirstAmendment
Remembering they lost turned out to be the problem, though.
Our poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction doors are now open in Submittable. baltimorereview.org
Meet Raven. We brought her to live with us a week ago today. She's petite, a year old, about 35 pounds, still a bit skittish, and celebratory in the snow. German Shepherd mix? Probably. Definitely a good dog.
Such transcendent work.
The Heron By Ted Hughes, Poet Laureate I am nothing But a prayer To catch a fish. A hush of air - A bloom of cloud On a tilting stalk.
I am nothing
But a prayer
To catch a fish.
A hush of air -
A bloom of cloud
On a tilting stalk.
By Ted Hughes, Poet Laureate
“The moral?” Henry thought for a moment. “The moral is the most pragmatic we can imagine, that life is a mystery and that only sentences are beautiful, and that we must be ready for change, especially when we go to Paris ...”
–a #SundaySentence from The Master by Colm Toibin