Muse—No! Persistence—Yes!
PR contributor Tina Tocco has this to say about writing: I had a writing instructor who told our class something like this: “If you can write only on sunny days, or while listening to the rain fall, or when everything in…
Readings and Writings (and Kvellings)
PR's associate editors are a pretty amazing and talented group--a pride of editors? Perhaps. Or maybe we should just say that we are grateful to our associate editors for their generosity--the time that they give to reading submissions, and that we…
A Splendid Wake-Up Blog
The project to record the history of D.C.'s poets and poetry, A Splendid Wake, now has a blog, A Splendid Wake Up, where news and updates of the committee's work will be posted. Poets Karren Alenier and Kim Roberts and…
Warrior Poetry Project
Guest blogger Fred Foote invites local veterans to participate in the Warrior Poetry Project at Walter Reed Bethesda: Is Poetry for you? Come and find out. The Warrior Poetry Project at Walter Reed Bethesda presents a regular series of free…
Old Time Potomac
http://youtu.be/p5RDxDfMtTc While the heat rises in Washington (in oh, so many ways), take a break and watch this film, "Down the Old Potomac: A Trip by Barge through the Historic Potomac Valley," by Conquest Pictures in 1917.
The Trials and Tribulations of The Creative Writing Professor
Associate Editor Jarvis Slacks takes a break from grading papers to talk about the life, or a slice of it, of the Creative Writing professor. Jarvis is an Associate Professor of English at Montgomery College, Rockville, and writes a blog,…
Developing Character
Blogger, writer, and photographer Holly Callen Berardi shares some of the techniques she used to invent a back story for a character in a novel she is currently working on. I’ve heard it said that the key to any…
Summer Reading Series: Wave Books
Blogger Nathan discovers and explores his new favorite independent poetry press. I’m on a mission to spread the love. Back in May, I discovered Seattle's Wave Books, and throughout the summer, I read some of their publications and went from…
In Print!
Associate Editor Marianne Szlyk writes about the path some of her poems took this summer: Even as we spend so much time online and Kindles allow us to dispense with the aching weight of books, print publication is still exciting. …
Interviewing the Poetry Contest Winner: The Lantry Team
That's the beauty of art: it offers us a different sight