Lynn McGee is the author of the poetry collection, Sober Cooking (Spuyten Duyvil Press, 2016), and two award-winning poetry chapbooks: Heirloom Bulldog (Bright Hill Press, 2015) and Bonanza (Slapering Hol Press, 1996). Her poems have appeared in many journals, including The American Poetry Review, Southern Poetry Review, Ontario Review, Phoebe, Storyscape, Painted Bride Quarterly and The New…
Relatively new to American readers, Pavlo Korobchuk is widely popular in Ukraine and Eastern Europe. He has received numerous literary awards, both in Ukraine and in Europe, and holds the largest number of victories in international poetry slams than any…
We in the Academy no longer require serious study of the humanities, much less of the arts, which reveals our outrage over President Trump’s proposal to eliminate their national endowments—not to mention our self-satisfied, self-righteous snickering a few months ago…
Every time you try to make a meme—literary or historic or geographic—of the Mid-Atlantic, much less one in which the three align, you are upended by the power of some new discovery of person, place or past. The region’s countless…
Come say hello to us at AWP 2017 right here in our backyard, at the Convention Center in Washington D.C., from February 9th to the 11th. We will have on hand plenty of copies of our newest issue, #60, which…
It seemed that there was some kind of fallacy at work—likely of the logical, but perhaps, also, literary variety and of which textbooks in most disciplines warn students, lest they lose the argument or the patient or the poem—in the…
That Henry Greenbaum spoke November 16th at the Germantown campus of Montgomery College recounting his experiences living in the ghetto, enduring death marches as well as slave labor in concentration camps after the loss of his mother and five of…
We are delighted to nominate these fine works and writers for the next Pushcart Prize anthology. Fiction: Kyle Hays’s "Sit Still," Stephanie Allen’s "Deer Hunt," and Shane Jones’s "Pluses." Poetry: Michael Estes's, “Joseph Cornell on the Prairie,” Michael Miller’s “Crossing,…
Ten years of fabulous interns! We are reaching out to all former Potomac Review interns and would like to hear how you are doing—fabulously, we hope. We'd love to hear from you and have you do a quick short survey…
Congratulations to past contributor Polly Buckingham, who has won the 2016 Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Short Fiction! Her story "My Old Man" appeared in PR #53 and is a part of her new collection, The Expense of a View,…