Maryland's fallen, Maryland 400, a review of "The Submission," doping spellers, Michael Collier




WYPR: Maryland Morning with Sheilah Kast Podcast show

Summary: May 27, 2013 Today, Memorial Day, we'll read the names of Marylanders recently lost to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Maryland is known as the Old Line State, thanks to a group of Revolutionary War soldiers known as the Maryland 400. Danny writes a play. Danny submits it under another name. Danny's play is selected by a prestigious festival. Danny hires a woman to pretend to be the playwright (him.) Why would a playwright on the verge of potential success do such a thing? Maryland Morning theater critic J. Wynn Rousuck fills us in on Olney Theatre Center's production of The Submission. The National Spelling Bee comes to Maryland this week. We bring you a fictional story about the spread of performance-enhancing drugs among America's top pre-teen spellers. Tom Hall talks with former Maryland poet laureate Michael Collier about his latest collection of poems, An Individual History.