History of Forgetfulness by Shahe Mankerian
Review by Alan Semerdjian
Publisher: Fly on the Wall Poetry (October 22, 2021)
Paperback: 86 pages
ISBN: 1913211622
The Memory Singing: Shahe ...
History of Forgetfulness by Shahe Mankerian Review by Alan Semerdjian
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If Some God Shakes Your House by Jennifer Franklin
Review by Gillian Perry
Publisher: Four Way Books
Publication Date: March 2023
ISBN: 978-1954245488
Pages: 96
A Window, An Open House
Jennifer ...
If Some God Shakes Your House by Jennifer Franklin Review by Gillian Perry
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It turns out it would have been snowing on your birthday. Large soft flakes fly up like down, and later corn snow bounces off my black coat. And it would have been raining. And it would have been sunny. And the wind ...
Lamentation 2 by Anne de Marcken
LAR Online, Nonfiction
The morning of my birth, the mill beside the hospital burned.
My father was standing at home
by a window, watching the horizon, his daughter
die. So many small deaths have happened ...
Cosmology with Self-Ascending by Mary Helen Callier
LAR Online, Poetry
My four-year-old is obsessed with my ex-husband.
“That is David Nields,” says Johnny pointing at a circle with dots for eyes, a big U for a smile, and two stick legs coming down from the circle’s bottom. He ...
Jack the Giant Killer by Nerissa Nields
LAR Online, Nonfiction
Born to a possibly noble Lombard family, Paul the Deacon (c. 720 – c. 790) represents one of the premier authors of the Carolingian Renaissance, a flowering of literary, artistic, and intellectual activity in ...
Poem by Paul the Deacon Translated by Christian Lopac
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The air wasn’t working too well, all the windows were open. I wiped down the bar counter. My wrist was bare, but I checked it for the time anyway. There was a clock across the room, but it inaccurately displayed a ...
Seeking the Good of Others
Fiction, LAR Online
When I told my father, on the back porch in the last days of summer, that he would die in a matter of weeks or months, then invited my sisters at the screen door to join us on the patio to share the moment, Susan cried ...
Palestinian Superstitions by Edward Salem
LAR Online, Poetry
You say you rock razor blade shades,
strut under stadium lights. Like you’re
secure. Pop a bottle of exoneration,
free yourself of the punk & pussy childhood
foes pinned on you because they ...
Sequin-Stetted Teeth by Oak Morse
LAR Online, Poetry
When I go to the doctor to pick up the pills, I’m thinking about mothers. Not my own, or even hers. I’m thinking about my father’s mother. My father’s mother was born when women had only just gotten the right to ...
Out With the Bathwater by Rachel M. Beavers
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