Artists from Maryland is proud to announce that we are starting our inaugural digital microchapbook series! The first collection comes from the wonderful nat raum. Check out totaled here (it's free to download!): https://artists-from-maryland.itch.io/totaled-by-nat-raum nat raum is the poet laureate of the void; their
"The story is over when the feeling is gone, and what I had wanted to say had been said..." This November is a busy month for Artists from Maryland! After finishing up our high school creative writing contest with Baltimore Polytechnic Institute, we have decided on three winners
"We had each other. Together through sweet Sundays, bad old music on the radio, and video games you loved, so I chose to love them too." ("Brother, Return") This November is a busy month for Artists from Maryland! After finishing up our high school creative writing
"'In all its glory, the sun bathed him as it rose, and it sat upon him as such. The sun burned away what once was, a night anew, a person anew.'" ("0710081009101010") This November is a busy month for Artists from Maryland! After finishing
"Being human means that there’s so many different you’s out there, so I try to gather all the Jack’s in the universe and conjure this kind of inherent sense of myself, and understand myself better." This November is a busy month for Artists from Maryland!
"To believe in something divine and put your faith into a figure with unbelievable power is inherently intimate to me, yet can be imbalanced." This November is a busy month for Artists from Maryland! After finishing up our high school creative writing contest with Baltimore Polytechnic Institute, we
"She lets the wind drift the tidings further and the water laps at my foam body." ("Sea Smoke, Dried Salt") This November is a busy month for Artists from Maryland! After finishing up our high school creative writing contest with Baltimore Polytechnic Institute, we have decided
"I figured it was worth the risk of putting it out there, and I'm glad I trusted that instinct." This November is a busy month for Artists from Maryland! After finishing up our high school creative writing contest with Baltimore Polytechnic Institute, we have decided on
"I was not born soft. I came in screaming; a fist of noise in a house already tired of the sound." ("Born Last") This November is a busy month for Artists from Maryland! After finishing up our high school creative writing contest with Baltimore Polytechnic Institute,
"When I wrote it, I lived in an apartment on a lake in Elkton, Maryland." For October's Maryland Artist of the Month, Artists from Maryland is featuring Craig Kirchner! Below, you will find three of his poems, and an artist's statement. Craig Kirchner loves
Every one of my pieces is made to evoke memory and meaning. For September's Maryland Artist of the Month, Artists from Maryland is featuring Elisabeth Arzt! Below, you will find five photos of her artwork, and an artist's statement. Elisabeth Arzt is a metalsmith and jewelry
"To me, being a writer is maintaining a sense of community you find amongst others whilst finding new ways to convey an emotion, a desire, a struggle, within words. It is both welcoming and terrifyingly challenging at the same time." For June's Maryland Artist of the