The “I” in the next few pages is age twenty-four and the “I” who I am now is looking back from a distance. Houston is teeming with people imports, not only a wildcatter’s paradise but a city of opera. City of ...
Houston: Encore for Woody Shaw by Stephanie Dickinson
LAR Online, Nonfiction
His scar made him
unlike the men who took me
to begging, to bowling
alleys on motorcycles, who threw off
their boots to the corners.
He had no last excuses.
Our desert habitat juggled
a thicket of cotton and ...
Open Heart by Lauren Camp
LAR Online, Poetry
Deaf Republic
Poems by Ilya Kaminsky
Graywolf Press, March 2019
$16.00, 96 pp.
978-1555978310
Kaminsky’s much awaited second book is a reverential ballad to the silences during war when we can find love. ...
Review: Deaf Republic by Ilya Kaminsky
Book Reviews, LAR Online, Poetry
what is a seed
but a code of knowing—
some love of unfolding
into secret dreams of green,
wet, and sunlight?
dormant and doomsday vaulted
at 18 degrees below Celsius—
the first species ...
#to the seeds in the Svalbard seed vault #kaze no denwa by Lee Ann Roripaugh
LAR Online, Poetry
Nothing left to binge but
glut the hollow, the thin sac’s
cavity hoarding these bright
bones like marbled silks
rattling in a cage, greened
and glinting. Hold the husk &
suck each bead out. See,
there ...
Gardening, a mother gives a daughter a lesson on mass loss by Caitlin Roach
LAR Online, Poetry
My father remembers the feel of the liquid chemical on his skin. An impromptu basketball game interrupted by an overhead roar. Choppers spraying defoliant over the jungle, so US soldiers could locate the enemy. Young ...
Chiến Tranh, 1970 by Ursula Villarreal-Moura
LAR Online, Nonfiction
Reviewed by Ronnie K. Stephens
If They Come for Us
Poems by Fatimah Asghar
One World, Random House Imprint, August 2018
$16.00, 128 pp.
ISBN-13: 978-0525509783
Fatimah Asghar redefines poetry in her ...
Review: If They Come for Us by Fatimah Asghar
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I imagine the gods saying, We will make it up to you. We will give you three wishes, they say.
—Jack Gilbert, Imagine the Gods
I.
They are nowhere to be seen or heard. I know. I’ve walked
dune-like ...
I imagine the gods saying by Veronica Golos
LAR Online, Poetry
Reviewed by Charlotte Kupsh
View
Stories by Glen Pourciau
Four Way Books, March 2017
$17.95, 168 pp.
ISBN-13: 978-1935536895
Glen Pourciau’s second collection of short stories, View, offers a vivid ...
Review: View by Glen Pourciau
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