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First runner-up in the 2020 Los Angeles Review Literary Awards, in the category of poetry. Final Judge: Francisco Aragón is the history of migration even the continents refuse to stay in one place one day these ...

The History of the Earth by Miguel Angel Garcia, Jr.

Award Winners, LAR Online, Poetry

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Winner of the 2020 Los Angeles Review Literary Awards, in the category of short fiction. Final Judge: Kristen Millares Young Liu Ge woke up to a sky so bright that he thought he had slept until noon. He checked ...

Marseille in Light by An Yu

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translated by Walid Abdallah and Andy Fogle Love in a Time of Terrorism Where did you come from? What land gave you your life? The horizon is studded with pieces of fire. Who said that the jasmine ...

Two Poems by Farouk Goweda

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reviewed by Cynthia Arrieu-King The Grave on the Wall  by Brandon Shimoda City Lights Publishers, July 2019. $16.95; 222 pp. ISBN: 978-0-87286-790-1 Brandon Shimoda’s experimental memoir The Grave on ...

Review: The Grave on the Wall by Brandon Shimoda

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Winner of the 2020 Los Angeles Review Literary Awards, in the category of poetry. Final Judge: Francisco Aragón What world did I open by finding you—forty dollars of milk-pale beast. Each of our lives started ...

Thrift Store Fur by Aimee Seu

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In her treatise The Writing Life, Annie Dillard notably wrote, “How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our life. What we do with this hour, and that one, is what we are doing. A schedule defends from chaos ...

Catching Days by Catherine Johnson

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review by Susan Nordmark Crow Mind by Tobey Hiller Finishing Line Press, 2020 $14.99, 32 pp. ISBN: 978-0963120717 Crow Mind is Tobey Hiller’s third poetry collection and her first in over ten years, ...

Review: Crow Mind by Tobey Hiller

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No one had ever heard him speak, so when Hayden Boyd stepped into the tire pit at Ridgemont Middle School and invoked Suicide #5, the boys broke into nervous laughter, shaken by the unexpected depth of his voice and the ...

Hearsay by John Phillips

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We invited them over, from their fields to ours. To join us naked and playful, to give them Hope. To watch us joyfully trample our own lands— And witness the greening anew overnight. Our fields. Paid for, no ...

Neighborly by Martha Rhodes

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