The Dirty Napkin

Poetry • Fiction • Letters

Submissions for Volume 4.1, Winter 2011 (21 December 2010) will be accepted until 15 November 2010

About the Author

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Michael Salcman is a physician, brain scientist and essayist on the visual arts. He served as chairman of neurosurgery at the University of Maryland and president of the Contemporary Museum in Baltimore. Presently Special Lecturer in the Osher Institute at Towson University, he lectures widely on art and the brain. Recent poems appear in Alaska Quarterly Review, the Hopkins Review, New Letters, Ontario Review, Harvard Review, Raritan, Rattle, and the New York Quarterly. Author of four chapbooks, most recently, Stones In Our Pockets (Parallel Press), Salcman's collection The Clock Made of Confetti (Orchises Press), was nominated for The Poet's Prize in 2009 and was a finalist for The Towson University Prize in Literature.