Where Meaning Lives
Disregard the drooling mouths, the incoherent babbles, the lack of fine motor skills: babies are geniuses. At birth, babies can discern every speech sound found in every language. They may not produce much more than dirty diapers, but they absorb the sound profiles of languages like sommeliers sampling pinot grigios ... Read More
The Football Gamble
As our fickle nation turns its attention to another season of weary football, we’re inundated with radio spots, TV commercials, and billboards touting the glitzy appeal of sports-betting. From this onslaught, it would seem that all it takes is a few minutes of research on point spreads, weather conditions, and ... Read More
Where Did the West Go?
The road stretched straight and flat before me, like you’d see in a sports car commercial or a Dennis Hopper movie. On either side, the land spread wide and open. Not quite flat–with a bit of a roll here and there–dotted continuously with juniper and other unidentifiable desert shrubs. I ... Read More
SELFIE INTERVIEW | Melanie Lynn Griffin
Melanie Lynn Griffin is a freelance writer, teacher, and environmental communications specialist whose work has appeared in Sierra magazine, AARP Bulletin, Sojourners, and So To Speak Journal. She is a pastor at Cedar Ridge Community Church in Spencerville, Maryland, and leads writing workshops and contemplative retreats. Ms. Griffin holds an ... Read More
Eckleburg Events
ALSO FIND US AT... AWP Book Expo Exchange (NY) Conversations & Connections (DC) Mission Creek Festival (Iowa) Litquake (LA) The Poetry Festival (NY) Derangement of the Senses (NY) Sarah Lawrence College Poetry Festival (NY) The Johns Hopkins University (NY, Balt) ... Read More
STAFF SPOTLIGHT | Peter Goodman
Eckleburg's Editorial Assistant, Peter Goodman, discuses his experience in the M.A. in Writing at Johns Hopkins University, what type of writing draws him in, and some of the pieces Eckleburg has published that his life would be incomplete without. Q: How did you learn about/become involved with Eckleburg? Peter Goodman: As I ... Read More
The Eckleburg Readings Series with Cris Mazza | Costume Optional
The Rue de Fleurus Salon and Reading Series with Cris Mazza and Zina Nedelcheva | COSTUME OPTIONAL | The Johns Hopkins University | Homewood Campus (Baltimore), Levering Hall | November 1st, 2013 | 6:30 PM | Free and open to the public | Please RSVP ... Read More
Stochasticism, Ambition and John Cage: A Discussion with Rick Moody
RAE BRYANT | I first met Rick Moody in 2010 at Jimmy’s No. 43, a Sunday Salon reading featuring Moody and a friend I was there to support as he was reading from his newly published epistolary novella. Moody was there to read from his newly released Four Fingers of ... Read More
The Johns Hopkins University, M. A. in Writing Spring Reading 2013 | Mark Farrington, Ed Perlman, Rae Bryant
Friday, March 15, 2013 6 PM Reception | 7 PM Reading Gilman Hall, Room 132, Homewood Campus The Johns Hopkins University, M. A. in Writing Program, Baltimore, Maryland ... Read More
ECKLEBURG and MISSION CREEK FESTIVAL PARTY at AWP 2013 Boston with STEVE ALMOND, AMBER TAMBLYN, DERRICK BROWN, RAE BRYANT, and Live Music by THE SUN PARADE
STEVE ALMOND is the author of My Life in Heavy Metal (Atlantic/Grove, 2002), The New York Times bestseller, Candyfreak (Algonquin Books, 2005), and God Bless America (Lookout Press, 2011). His short fiction and essays can be found in The New York Times Magazine, GQ, The Wall Street Journal, Tin House, Playboy, ... Read More
ECKLEBURG and MISSION CREEK FESTIVAL PARTY at AWP 2013 Boston with STEVE ALMOND, AMBER TAMBLYN, DERRICK BROWN, RAE BRYANT, and Live Music by THE SUN PARADE
[youtube width="600" height="365" video_id=YFmzz9eUHro] STEVE ALMOND is the author of My Life in Heavy Metal (Atlantic/Grove, 2002), The New York Times bestseller, Candyfreak (Algonquin Books, 2005), and God Bless America (Lookout Press, 2011). His short fiction and essays can be found in The New York Times Magazine, GQ, The Wall Street ... Read More
Washington D.C., Eckleburg, Gargoyle, Barrelhouse and Johns Hopkins Nod in Ploughshares
Lovely mention of DC as a literary community including Eckleburg, Johns Hopkins, Gargoyle, Barrelhouse, and many more at Ploughshares. Ploughshares is out of Emerson College, Boston, Massachusetts, host city of AWP 2013. Eckleburg and The Johns Hopkins, M.A. in Writing Program look forward to reading, writing, attending workshop after workshop ... Read More
Whale Skull
The whale dreams about sitting at a desk and staring at a computer screen. Its skull is the housing for many things. The skull is horned and crooked. Cracked. Filled with Truths. Black metal bands play music about the hunger in the skull. The bands wear the skull to connect ... Read More
Ben Loory Reads On the Way Down: A Story for Ray Bradbury at the MMR Reading at Johns Hopkins University
Ben Loory reads "On the Way Down: A Story for Ray Bradbury" at the 2011 Moon Milk Review Off-Site AWP Reading at Johns Hopkins University. Find this story and more in the MMR Anthology 2011 ... Read More
BLIP Magazine/Moon Milk Review/Potomac Review Off-Site AWP Reading at Johns Hopkins University
BLIP Magazine/Moon Milk Review/Potomac Review Off-Site AWP Reading at Johns Hopkins University ... Read More