Mine eyes are spent with weeping. —Lamentations 2:11
There is a basic question for all fiction: “What made you want to create this piece?” The judges found the winning entry answered this question with a ...
After Henry by Barbara Fried
Award Winners, Fiction, LAR Online
“Rupture” is an essay in which nothing extraordinary happens—children are born, are mothered, grow up, become independent. The author has the privilege of being home with her kids, and caring for them. It is all ...
Rupture by Kimberly Meyer
Award Winners, LAR Online, Nonfiction
Why did I select this poem? The speaker in “On Being Asked What Question I Don’t Want to Answer” dances with the darker themes of violence and despair with prowess, levity, and a wit that guards against the ...
On Being Asked What Question I Don’t Want to Answer by rebecca brown
Award Winners, LAR Online, Poetry
—But I’m not done with you, says the wife.
Highest marks go to this masterfully crafted piece. The surreal sorrow met by the wife is in such contrast to the apparent peace achieved by the husband, yet one ...
Heun-jeok by Aram Kim
Award Winners, Fiction, LAR Online