Q&A with Poet Karen Craigo
With rollout of the new webpage, we’re going to be featuring the work of a few of the contributors from each issue. We begin with Karen Craigo, author of the poem “ Total Knee Replacement” Can you tell us a…
Once Late Arrivals, Now Local Luminaries
Late starts do not typically presage momentous contributions, but originality has at least as many fathers as victory does, and whether or not their late arrivals on the scene had anything to do with it, these local luminaries made and…
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…
Reviews: Loss and Lampoon
Associate Editor Albert Kapikian inaugurates our book review thread with his thoughtful reading of two books: one, The Last Girl, by poet Rose Solari, and the other, The Wizard and the White House, by local author and associate editor Mike…
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…