A huge congratulations to Dorothy Van Soest, author of Nuclear Option, for winning the 2021 Independent Press Award! In 1984 SYLVIA JENSEN was a heavy drinker having an affair with Norton, an atomic veteran and fellow activist in the nuclear disarmament...
A huge congratulations to Nancy Burke, author of Only the Women are Burning , for being a Distinguished Favorites for the 2021 Independent Press Award! Three women are lost in a single morning, one at a commuter train, one at a school, one while walking her dog in the...
A huge congratulations to Jessica O’Dwyer, author of Mother Mother, for being a Distinguished Favorites for the 2021 Independent Press Award! Contemporary art museum curator Julie Cowan achieves her dream of motherhood through adoption, but her life is far from...
A huge congratulations to Charles Rammelkamp, author of Catastroika, for being a Distinguished Favorites for the 2021 Independent Press Award! In a sequence of poems in the dramatic monologue style, Charles Rammelkamp’s Catastroika covers a century of Russian...
A huge congratulations to C. Kubasta, author of Abjectification: Stories & Truths for being a Distinguished Favorites for the 2021 Independent Press Award! Abjectification mines our most intimate moments to flesh out the horrors of human interaction. In the...
Check out this review from the London Grip Poetry regarding Gentrifying the Plague House, written by Edward Doyle-Gillespie. You can check out the full review on their website today! London Grip Poetry Review – Edward...
A huge congratulations to Rupert Nacoste, author of To Live Woke: Thoughts to Carry in Our Struggle to Save the Soul of America for winning the 2021 Distinguished Favorite; Book Cover Design Nonfiction and the 2021 Distinguished Favorite; Social/Political Change! We...
As I boy growing up, even having witnessed my father’s incredible sense of the importance of relationships as I observed and heard stories of the real estate business he started with his brother, I never thought this would be my life’s course. Although I was a people...
Virginia Crawford is a long-time teaching artist with the Maryland State Arts Council. She has co-edited two anthologies: Poetry Baltimore, poems about a city and Voices Fly, An Anthology of Exercises and Poems from the Maryland State Arts Council Artist-in-Residence...
