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…
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…
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,…
Our Republic of Outrage and Its Assault on America’s Public Square “I am convinced.” “Let me be clear.” “There is no question about it.” “The stakes could not be higher.” “Make no mistake…” These are the signals, unintentional signals, of…
Whether or not the great American novel has been written, the great Washington D.C. novel, arguably, has not. Much that happens here is documented—there is an archive for nearly everything—but the inner lives of our citizens are seriously underreported. Spiritual…
Our Associate Editor David Lott has a new flash fiction piece up at 100 word story, called "Night Jobbed." Take a look!
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…
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. …