Night Jobbed
Our Associate Editor David Lott has a new flash fiction piece up at 100 word story, called "Night Jobbed." Take a look!
E. Ethelbert Miller: A Man Collected, An Archive Achieved
Because E. Ethelbert Miller’s poetry maintains a steady and accessible attachment to our national narrative, Kirsten Porter, editor of The Collected Poems of E. Ethelbert Miller, is able, before launching into a formal discussion of his poems, to ask "if…
Mindfulness and The Pen
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. …
Translations: A Master Class With Alicia Partnoy
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…
Lost (and Found) in Translation
Depending on whom you talk to, the translation of poetry is either a subspecies of art, science, imitation, mime, magic or, as Robert Frost (in)famously implied, an infernal combination of all of these and, therefore, a horror. Perhaps the only…
Conversations and Connections 2016
What began as a rainy Saturday ended in brilliant sunshine. And if this were a short story, we might be seeing a change in the mood of the crowd to match the gradual increments of light. Conversations and Connections,…
Larry Moffi of Settlement House Visits the Interns
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).…
Three Women Writers, Three Names Each, Three Different Reasons
Poet and #58 contributor Julia Campbell Johnson writes about why she uses three names when she publishes and offers the stories of Julie Wakeman-Linn (PR's own Three-Named Editor) and that of Karen Salyer McElmurray, co-editor of STILL: The Journal, whose decision to…
Leslie Pietrzyk & Maureen Corrigan and The Uses of Obsession
If two writers are obsessed by a subject, if one — Leslie Pietrzyk — is a storyteller, and one — Maureen Corrigan — a scholar in a literary age obsessed by memoir and the uses of memoir, what kind of…
Q and A with Katie Cortese
Contributor Katie Cortese, author of "Back to Nature" and the book, Girl Power and Other Short-Short Stories, is this season's featured author. Read below to learn more about her, her work, and her choice of sandwich. Can you tell us…