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This past April, spring 2025 intern Cayden Coleman sat down with acclaimed poet, novelist, and long-time associate editor at Potomac Review, Mike Maggio, for an insightful and wide-ranging conversation. Their video discussion—shared below—delves into a dynamic mix of topics: from…
by Noa Nissim Kobliner, Potomac Review intern, spring 2025 Robert L. Giron is a retired English, creative writing, and ESL professor; the founder of Gival Press and ArLiJo; and an editor for Potomac Review. In addition, Giron is fluent in…
A review of Claire Dederer's Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma by Kathryn Mussenden, Potomac Review Intern spring 2024 What do we do when bad people make good art? Claire Dederer’s Monsters: A Fan’s Dilemma struggles with this. It is a…
Book Review of George Choundas's Until All You See is Sky by Jessie Gouverneur, Potomac Review Intern, summer 2023 Are you wondering how your past can affect your present? The essay collection Until All You See is Sky is a…
PR Interns Hieu Duong and Juliana Borelli offer these ideas about writing and mindfulness, mixing meditative practice with the creative act, and about the value of working with a strong instructor such as PR Fiction Editor, John Wang. …
Poetry is an alluring way to write about the raw human emotions that exist in each of our lives. They are simply timeless because they can apply to all individuals, as there is likely to be at least one poem…
On March 29th, Settlement House Press co-founder and publisher Larry Moffi visited the Potomac Review interns at Montgomery College and discussed his career in publishing, which ranges from being an author, editor, copy-editor, managing editor to director of publications (http://www.larrymoffi.com).…
One of the perks of being a Potomac Review Intern is the opportunity to attend literary festivals and conferences and learn about craft from and network with more experienced writers. Dagem Beede shares his experience this past October at the Frostburg Indie…
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…
Gabriel M. Antuna is one of PR's very talented and hardworking interns this semester. As is our tradition, our interns write a blog post for us during the semester. Enjoy Gabriel's musings below: My literary aspirations were vast and lofty. Penning…