FARM EVENING IN THE BLUE SMOKE
Though it was late, with a storm coming in,
our friends sat on the porch, smoking and drinking.
I went to my room, the laughter and talk loud
but oddly dear to me. I had a drowsy ...
Two Poems by Kathy Fagan
LAR Online, Poetry
The Shetland could not help herself from helping herself to summer fescue under hoof. The waxy, sugared grasses tasted so fine and grew so plentiful, and since we did not corral the horses, they had their reign: three ...
A Dead White Pony by Debra Di Blasi
LAR Online, Nonfiction
NEW_GAME: STATS
+25 white privilege
+25 upper middle class liberal arts education
+25 use of all of your limbs
+15 straight(-but-just-queer-enough-to-be-hip-in-select-social-circles) privilege
+15 face, ...
NEW_GAME001 by Kendra Fortmeyer
Fiction, LAR Online
Reviewed by Stephanie Barbé Hammer
Detainee
Poems by Miguel Murphy
Barrow Street Press, April 2016
$20.95; 72 pp.
ISBN-13: 978-0997318401
Can poetry simultaneously terrify and entrance? Can there be a ...
Book Review: Detainee by Miguel Murphy
Book Reviews, LAR Online
Dear Thanatos,
I am three thoughts away from the grave,
two steps away from the open door,
one kiss away from the bridge.
Dear volcano, where are you?
Dear battleship, your war planes
sit on the bottom of the ...
Two Poems by Traci Brimhall
LAR Online, Poetry
We are all laughing about something when he comes over to us. He is drunk, drink in hand. He slurs and grins. —Hey there, ladies!
We stare at him silently. I hope that, working together, we can set him on fire with ...
Slouching Towards Dicklehem by Katharine Coldiron
LAR Online, Nonfiction
Happy Hour
Magicians never move away from their magic
the stranger in the bar tells me.
I’m waiting for my friend, sipping vodka
from two skinny straws. They hover around objects
that easily move, have special ...
Four Poems by Kim Dower
LAR Online, Poetry
Reviewed by Sophia Ihlefeld
Identity Unknown: Rediscovering Seven American Women Artists
Nonfiction by Donna Seaman
Bloomsbury, February 2017
$35.00; 480 pp.
ISBN-13: 978-1620407585
Donna Seaman’s ...
Book Review: Identity Unknown: Rediscovering Seven American Women Artists
Book Reviews, LAR Online
Dear P.
If you are like me and can only see the horizon
that is unreachable don’t know that want sheds and
grows and sheds and grows please ...
Two Poems by Victoria Chang
LAR Online, Poetry