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An interview with the late, great Linda Pastan        "Along the indifferent corridors / of space, angels could be hiding," Linda Pastan wrote in her poem "Muse." ASP honors the legacy of Linda Pastan (1932-2023), a former Poet Laureate of Maryland, who passed away last week. Pastan was the author of the 2018 poetry book A Dog Runs Through It, which won the Towson University Literary Award. She was the 2003 winner of the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize for lifetime achievement. She taught at American University and served on the staff of the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. Pastan lived in Potomac, … [Read more...]

Here's to 2022! And Here's a Sale... 2022 was a big year for ASP and our writers. In March, we had a booth at the annual AWP Conference, and our offsite reading, featuring authors Saida Agostini, Dave Housley, Elizabeth Hazen, and Richard Peabody, along with special guests Teri Ellen Cross Davis and Leslie Pietrzyk, had a standing-room-only audience packed with literary stars.  In April, ASP sponsored the American Authors Weekend at the Oxford Literary Festival in Oxford, England. Saida Agostini, David Downie, Elizabeth Hazen and Dave Housley each gave fabulous presentations on their … [Read more...]