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Grace Cavalieri on Kojo Nnamdi WAMU Grace Cavalieri was recently featured on WAMU's "People we met in 2019". Listen to her appearance on the Kojo Nnamdi show earlier this year. “What I love best is the people who say, ‘After talking to you, I wrote my first poem,’” she said. “I would love to have put that little chip, that little crystal behind your heart.” — Grace Cavalieri The Maryland Poet Laureate was recently featured in WAMU's "People we met in 2019." During the inaugural year of Grace's Laureateship, Grace has received many awards and recognition for her busy speaking … [Read more...]

“Melanie’s Song” Reviewed in The Maryland Literary Review Author and Baltimore native, Charles Rammelkamp writes glowingly about Joanna Biggar's newest novel in his review in MLR. Charles Rammelkamp's lovely review of Joanna Biggar's new novel Melanie's Song is up today on the Maryland Literary Review. Read an except below, the full review here, and find a preferred place to purchase the book here. "A sequel to her 2010 novel, That Paris Year, which followed five California girls on their junior year abroad, in 1962, at the Sorbonne, Joanna Biggar’s new novel follows … [Read more...]

Reuben Jackson and Rose Solari to Read at the American Poetry Museum December 14th, 2019 Reuben Jackon, Rose Solari, and the wonderful Maryland poet Maritza Rivera will perform poems from their catalog at the American Poetry Museum in Washington, DC. The readings will be followed by a question and answer period. more info Sure to be a treat for the DMV poetry fan, Reuben Jackson and Rose Solari are known to have particularly excellent chemistry together, having read and worked together for over twenty years. In the early '90s Rose and Reuben were fresh poets just hitting the scene. … [Read more...]

Incoming: Early 2020 will be the first ASP Open Submissions Period This new year WE WANT YOUR POETRY AND NOVEL MANUSCRIPTS! For this, our first open submissions period, we are looking for manuscripts in two categories: full-length poetry collections and novels. We are interested in work that is well-crafted and possessed of a strong, distinctive voice. Before you submit, we suggest you review our current list, to see if your work might be a good fit for us. What we are NOT looking for on this round: Short story collections, essay collections, memoirs, and other forms of creative … [Read more...]