Citylit Press

Born into an Italian-Catholic family in a tight-knit Baltimore neighborhood, Leonora Dixon recalls the happy days of an innocent childhood. But how would she find the courage to leave a horrible...

An Easy Place / To Die is a poetic journey through New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. The first section wakes with city, culture, and mythmaking as introductions into poetry and a...

Winner of the fourth annual Harriss Poetry Prize chapbook contest judged by Marie Howe. Rebekah Remington holds a BA from Johns Hopkins University and an MFA from the University of Michigan. Her...

After his father's death at sea, a fourteen-year-old boy struggles to survive in colonial Maryland, to gain his freedom from the man who buys him, and to rescue his sister who has been sold to...

"There is a saying in Baltimore," said the sage himself, H.L. Mencken, "that crabs may be prepared in fifty ways and that all of them are good." The same can be said of the different short pieces of...

Winner of CityLit Press's third annual Harriss Poetry Prize, "Every Bit of It" marks the further emergence of poet Katherine Bogden. Judge Tom Lux said: "This book reveals by what it hides. It tells...

The distance between Cuba and the United States: tantalizingly close yet worlds apart. When a beautiful showgirl married to Cuba's most famous baseball player escapes to the sea, only a boy and a...

In this collection of poems and photographs, Jennifer Wallace blends two art forms to capture glimpses of a city: its history, its pride, its squalor, its nature, and its people. Through graceful...

The taste of a penny. Running for the bus. Carpets rolled and stacked like logs into a child's mountain. Laura Shovan mines gems from the everyday caverns of life. From these moments Shovan collected...

Winner of CityLit Press's fifth annual Harriss Poetry Prize, Oblige the Light takes readers to "a magical space." From the introduction by judge Michael Salcman: "Astonishing metaphors and precise...

A man attempts to make a fresh start by reclaiming domain over his yard with the last birthday gift from his ex-wife, a lawnmower. A couple discovers Faulkner, shrimp and grits, Morgan Freeman, and...