Song in the Dark
by Naomi Thiers Song in the Dark Will you take all my youth, yank outevery pearl, leaving me stunned, mouthinga garbled message in the dark? How many friends of my heartare dead now, or their bold strokes dimmed(by you) to…
by Naomi Thiers Song in the Dark Will you take all my youth, yank outevery pearl, leaving me stunned, mouthinga garbled message in the dark? How many friends of my heartare dead now, or their bold strokes dimmed(by you) to…
————————Cullen McMahon———————— THE MISSING LINK WHEN the doorbell rang, I was in my room pretending to put on a holiday sweater while actually playing my fifth consecutive hour of Super Mario Brothers. In those days I had a Nintendo with…
___________Jory Mickelson______________ The Annunciation We lived in a world mostlyunlike the world. We didn’t knowthe names of any growing thingamid the marble pillars & porticos& the obelisk of the angel’sruffling wings. In the ruinsof the oligarchs’ harvesting,their alpha & omega…
Mark Christhilf OVERTURES ON SOME UNANSWERED QUESTIONS I There is something in me, I am not sure what, but I know it dwells in me. Suns and moons pass through it—rains, snows, whole seasons. The living depart, the young are…
Nancy Naomi Carlson WE WEREN’T SO JEWISH THEN Dangling our faith on a golden chain, we gave our children Old Testament names like Matthew and Aaron and Ruth to honor the family dead piling up faster by year— a…
This week we round out the offerings of our interns with this thoughtful piece about short fiction's ascent as THE most popular form of literature these days. The other day I was browsing the Internet when I came upon a…
Our blog this week has been written by Nicky Pham, one of our magnificent interns. In this post, she writes of her . . .writing life. My name is Nicky. I’m a transfer student at Montgomery College and an intern…
Each semester the Potomac Review works with three (magnificent) student interns who do most of the behind-the-scenes heavy lifting. Without their plugging away at the computer, the PR would exist only as a dream or a handwritten note delivered by…
Some of the good news from the AWP conference has been about the many compliments on the creative, beautiful cover of #56. It borders on understatement to say that PR feels very fortunate to have had the photographs of Jody…
Last week our poetry editor, Katherine Smith, read from her new poetry collection, Woman Alone on the Mountain, at the Union Ave Books in Knoxville, Tennessee. PR congratulates author Jennifer Clement, who recently was named a finalist of the Pen/Faulkner…