Editor’s Note: In early August, the Talbot Spy will welcome acclaimed poet and Vietnam veteran W.D. Ehrhart for a special Spy Night at the Avalon.

Author Note: When my husband and I moved from the UK to Baltimore City in 2009 (before our children were born) I spent time developing

Author’s Note: My poetic philosophy is to try to express an emotion or describe an image or idea in a ‘few well chosen words’ that capture

Author’s note: As an archaeologist, there are certain artifacts I’ve grown to appreciate over others. I’ve found 12,000 year old flakes from North American sites, cerulean

Authors Note: I wrote “Aloha Shirt Man’s Inventory of the Beauty That Remains” during the summer of 2024. During the baseball season, I am a

Author’s note: the poem began with one of those everyday struggles with a heavy door, the kind that doesn’t want to open and then apparently

Author’s note: I remember the moment when I learned about fascia. My cousin, a physical therapy assistant, was telling me about his work as we

Author’s Note: In recent years, I’ve developed a mild obsession with documentaries about people who are themselves obsessed with near-impossible physical feats—scaling the most forbidding

Author’s Note: I was inspired to write this piece after reading Robert Cording’s poem, “Screensaver,” in which the poet mourns his dead son by describing