Romana Iorga
Romana Iorga This Silence Is the Largest I Could Find It has no doors, no windows.Yes, you may crawl inside it, but you must dig.I don’t know how long it will take.What spade? Use your fingers, your toes.Your teeth, if…
Sonya Schneider
Ode to My BreastsI have no memory of the buds, the hard fistsof hormones hauling you up not unlikethe earth moved by velvety voles.Warm friends, I underestimated you.You grew out of sinewy muscle and fat,that dirty word, that dense tissuewhy…
Hereinafter Denied, Hereinafter Forgotten: No Sign by Peter Balakian and History of Forgetfulness by Shahé Mankerian
Hereinafter Denied, Hereinafter Forgotten: No Sign by Peter Balakian and History of Forgetfulness by Shahé Mankerian Artsakh is a sign, as is Mt. Ararat, where, according to the Biblical account, Noah’s Ark found its final rest. Genocide, the neologism coined…
An Imagination for Reality: Three Reviews
An Imagination for Reality Meg Eden’s Drowning in the Floating World and Elizabeth Hazen’s Girls Like Us Washington’s Literary Monuments: Mark Merlis’s American Studies by Albert Kapikian Meg Eden’s Drowning in the Floating World and Elizabeth Hazen’s Girls Like Us…
Intern’s Review
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…
Upcoming Themed Issues: The Other and The Unseen
Potomac Review will host a series of themed issues beginning with The Other, in Spring 2025, and, in Fall 2025, The Unseen. We welcome poetry, short fiction, essays, and meditations on these topics. Submissions for "The Other" will be open July 1st…
Intern’s Review
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…
An Interview with Andrew Furman
Andrew Furman, whose story “Crawling” appears in issue 73, is a Florida writer. He’s lived in the state for thirty years, writes widely about its people and its environment, and is (among many other things) the author of the memoir…
Commonspire
Editor’s Note: Commonspire My reach exceeded my grasp, but when I coined the title to this note in an essay on the Potomac Review website in October 2016, the neologism was meant to suggest a vision for the future that…
Cadence and Disclosure
Editor’s Note: Cadence and Disclosure by Albert Kapikian Like other literary journals, a literary journal that issues out of a community college issues out of a collaboration between the arts and the humanities, between, that is, writers and editors, those…