Winner of the 2017 Los Angeles Review Fiction Award, judged by Bryan Hurt
I love this story for its quick and slippery wordplay and how the logic of language intoxicates the story, twisting it in directions that surprise ...
Parting Shot by Ashely Farmer
Award Winners, LAR Online
Reviewed by Maggie Trapp
God, the Moon, and Other Megafauna
Stories by Kellie Wells
University of Notre Dame Press, 2017
$50.00, 192 pp.
ISBN-13: 978-0268102258
A severed arm still wearing an expensive ...
Review: God, the Moon, and Other Megafauna by Kellie Wells
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Burrs, creeks, elms…. here are some more things I like:
the words antidote and thistle. Embers.
Each pillaged and blown-out motel along
state roads. How someone in a parking ...
Driving Through Wyoming, Listening to the Radio by Sophie Klahr
LAR Online, Poetry
Winner of the 2017 Los Angeles Review Nonfiction Award, judged by Chelsey Clammer
What I loved most about this essay was how I had to take a number of pauses while reading it so I could catch my breath before diving into ...
One Story, Seven Times by Anne Royan
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Reviewed by Rebecca Kaiser Gibson
Shadow-feast
Poems by Joan Houlihan
Four Way Books, March 2018
$15.95, 64 pp.
ISBN-13: 978-1945588082
Shadow-feast is a tour de force sheared of excess, breathtaking ...
Review: Shadow-feast by Joan Houlihan
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I’m watching in accelerated motion as men dig
a deep dish & fill it with the concrete needed
to hold the turbine’s base, to steady the blades
it takes one train & six semis to deliver to these ...
Wind Turbine Erection: A Time Lapse Video by Lisa Fay Coutley
LAR Online, Poetry
Winner of the 2017 Los Angeles Review Poetry Award, judged by t'ai freedom ford
The intimacy of the imagery resonated and lingered long after I'd left the poem.
The beauty of the poem for me is in its economy---the ability ...
Temescal Wash & Dry by Samantha Niedzielski
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Reviewed by Joan Gelfand
Landings
Poems by Andrena Zawinski
Kelsey Books, April 2017
$17.00, 98 pp.
ISBN 13: 978-1945752728
It’s tempting to bury our pasts. Haunted by the ghosts of ...
Review: Landings by Andrena Zawinski
Book Reviews, LAR Online
After “Jules and Jim” by Donald Revell
god was very near
not burned in stone
he was the ruined
face of Duras
and there is no more river
across which she traveled
where I was discarded
where any singer who ...
Marguerite and Kazim by Kazim Ali
LAR Online, Poetry