With its attendant echoes of the biblical account of creation near at hand, it is a mark of distinction around here for someone to say that they were "present at the creation," a Washington term of art taken from the…
Join us on October 1 at Montgomery College for a reading by visiting award-winning author Jenine Capó Crucet. She will be reading from her new book, Make Your Home Among Strangers. Her book was named "best book of the season" by Cosmopolitan, Vanity Fair, Harper's Bazaar, Redbook, Bustle, NBC…
We're giving the much-deserved attention to our talented contributing writers. Visit the page quarterly for updates on the poets and writers within the pages of our print magazine. Learn about their muse, daily habits, words of wisdom, and ambitious side projects.
We're acknowledging authors of the DC Metro area, those with books hidden in independent bookstores and squished between best sellers. Visit us each month for a review or two of under-appreciated talent. Feel free to contact us with any suggestions of local…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…