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Hi my name is Amenhotep and I’m an alcoholic. I’m 38. I’m an American citizen. I was named for an obscure brand of Canadian beer. I was born with no teeth. When they arrived I had a cavity. I had no ...

There Will Have Been Phosphorescence by Ethan Stebbins

LAR Online, Poetry

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Dear Diary,   Today wasn’t such a good idea. Not to seem ungrateful, not that I’m not breathing in love, breathing out hate, inhaling trust, exhaling doubt, but when I tried to shimmy  into shoulder ...

Dear Diary by Martha Silano

LAR Online, Poetry

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(ఆ)fter my birth, there was a lull, but long (బి)fore, there was music in the family, in the (క్)alling of life through the familiar (డ్)ampness of a mother’s blood offering. (ఏ)mpty of its ...

An Abecedarian to Mother’s Tongue by Meher Manda

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Cities with their name in the distance Prague, the bridge the castle the time on the clock tower the clock tower in history the Jewish cemetery at the corner Skopje, Istanbul other alphabets commerce of hours and ...

Three Poems from Lointaines by Nicole Brossard

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Last night I ate a bowl of venison stew and tasted Michigan’s sweet grass.  I learned to sight a shotgun before my first period, and pheasant-hunted  just once: rambled for hours through the tall brush, ...

Blake by Sarah Sala

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This city will always pursue you. You'll walk the same streets, grow old in the same neighborhoods, turn grey in these same houses [...] Now that you've wasted your life here, in this small corner, you've ...

Two Poems From The City Within You by Karla Marrufo Huchim

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When the Cavern closed, that basement pet shop where I spent after school afternoons feeding the fresh waters & salt waters, &  told in hushed tones my small desires to the eclectus parrot who knew my ...

The End of Childhood by Gerry LaFemina

LAR Online, Poetry

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…We are swallowed by the mass culture made in USA, leisure and pleasure become the first objectives of our existence and, anesthetized by fashion and by cosmetics, we let ourselves become entangled in your webs which ...

SweekStars 2018: Excerpt from Vaulted Home – Day Seventh by Ana Filomena Amaral

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Inspector Warrell had taken his usual seat in the Evidence Room, directly facing the door. Sunlight filtered in through the windows, caressing the air and washing over the table, casting shadows from his tablet and ...

SweekStars 2018: Evidence by Joel R Hunt

Award Winners, LAR Online

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