Mark Christhilf
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 Poems
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…
Gisele Barbeau: The Rise of The Short Story
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…
Nicky Pham: Chasing my Dream of a Career in Writing
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…
From Our Interns: Mary Rose Winters
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…
Introducing Jody Shipka
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…
Over Spring Break. . .
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…
THE SCHOLASTIC ART & WRITING AWARDS
Jessie Seigel is a fiction writer and Potomac Review associate editor. She also blogs on writing at The Adventurous Writer. I recently had the pleasure of serving as a juror for the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, a national educational…
Kudos for Two
There's always room for more good news, and the Potomac Review is proud to share the following: Current poetry contributor Julie R. Enszer has been selected as one of 21 Leaders of 2015: Seven Who Transform Cultures, by Women's eNews. Congratulations, Julie! Read…