Winner of the 2019 Los Angeles Review Literary Awards, in the category of poetry.
Final Judge: Matty Layne Glasgow
See my hands? They strong hands. They hold worlds, they break men
open with a snap. My hands is ...
the blues, reproductive by Aurielle Marie
Award Winners, LAR Online
Inheritances
I don’t know at what moment
my sisters inhabited me,
when they looted my room
to install their own belongings
and furnish me with their dreams.
I don’t understand how la abuela
got ...
Inheritances by Johanny Vázquez Paz
LAR Online, Poetry, Translations
The day after the 2008 presidential election I woke up in my bed, achy and throbbing. It's a morning I haven’t been able to forget, the follow up to a proud day. Despite being United States citizens, residents of ...
Between Foreign and Familiar by Tania Pabón Acosta
LAR Online, Nonfiction
channeling Georgia O’Keefe
and it looks like a dancer on the loose,
like someone set free of her blues (or
maybe it’s just her imagination—
a goulash of yellow and purple?)
Moon looks like a mushroom’s ...
She Sees A Pelvis In the Moon by Lynne Thompson
LAR Online, Poetry
Winner of the 2019 Los Angeles Review Literary Awards, in the category of short fiction.
Final Judge: Tammy Lynne Stoner
Let him choose the place. Somewhere familiar, like the coffee shop on the corner that only ...
How to Tell That Guy You’ve Been Dating, Your Boyfriend, or Your Friend (Whom You’re Actually in Love With) You Have a Disability by Lillie Lainoff
Award Winners, LAR Online
A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.
Diane Arbus
I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn’t photograph them.
Diane Arbus
To photograph truthfully and ...
Photographic Memory by Linda Murphy Marshall
LAR Online, Nonfiction
Aging is a possibility, like a promise
made between you and me on an autumn day,
when Halloween had thrill.
I remember our names and the games
we played, Konstantin, but not our jokes.
What matters is that we ...
Myth of Growing Old as Brothers by Tim Neil
LAR Online, Poetry
Winner of the 2019 Los Angeles Review Literary Awards, in the category of creative nonfiction.
Final Judge: Adrianne Kalfopoulou
I am a “Redbone.” It refers to a range of skin color that makes people ask, ...
A Redbone’s Reality by Renée Ozburn
Award Winners, LAR Online, Nonfiction
Terror Lullabies
Nude on the hotel plush
I eat red jam from glass jars
warm cream with my fingers.
Genet, I ask
what will I do
with this body.
Monstrous, he murmurs
in the middle of a speech
on ...
Three Poems by Cynthia Cruz
LAR Online, Poetry