What does it mean
to owe someone? A cocoon
a small blue egg, a chrysalis? One night,
looking through the dark
window of the bedroom, the wind fierce,
10 on the Beaufort, true Dutch
weather, trees like ships ...
Amsterdam Long Window by Donna Spruijt-Metz
LAR Online, Poetry
Sarah McColl is the author of the memoir Joy Enough. Her writing has appeared in the Paris Review, McSweeney’s, StoryQuarterly and other publications. She has received fellowships from the Millay Colony, Ucross, Vermont ...
Interview With Sarah McColl
Interviews, LAR Online
A distress signal from the deep
end of the pool disturbs my novel. Frantic
SOSs in two-inch concentric circles drummed
by miniscule wings—
and I had such hopes
for the afternoon: shade, pillow, bowl
of ...
Almost Perfect by Michael Mark
LAR Online, Poetry
When asked whether she would continue painting after the death of her husband, Jackson Pollock, Lee Krasner said of her series, Green Earth, “this was my answer.”
As crickets sing relentless ...
The Seasons by Amy Antongiovanni
LAR Online, Poetry
The Wife
Within me, a forest.
Within me, night.
In the dark, there is no
telling snag from spruce,
root from rot. I finger
clods of wet earth. Who
can I pray to? Tonight—
it is always night ...
Two Poems by Anna B. Sutton
LAR Online, Poetry
Reviewed by James Benton
Little Million Doors: An Elegy
Chad Sweeney
Nightboat Books, April 2019
$15.95, 80 pp.
ISBN-13: 978-1643620008
Like a hurricane of images, or a tsunami of grief, ...
Review: Little Million Doors: An Elegy by Chad Sweeney
Book Reviews, LAR Online, Poetry
I measure every Grief I meet
as if I could tether it, tune it,
fair weather it—successor
to loss, where cobweb
& feather are sewn together,
where barb & bramble tattoo
untruths to the wound’s
memory ...
Self-Portrait as a Line from an Emily Dickinson Poem by Simone Muench and Jackie K. White
LAR Online, Poetry
Reviewed by Sidney Wade
Birnam Wood
Poetry by José Manuel Cardona, translated by Hélène Cardona
Salmon Poetry; Bilingual edition (July 27, 2018)
$21.00, 96pp.
ISBN-13: 978-1912561186
Birnam Wood is ...
Review: Birnam Wood by José Manuel Cardona, translated by Hélène Cardona
Book Reviews, LAR Online
When there was no one to call it weather, no animals
to feel the wet on their pelts, nothing at all to make
a complaint,
when what moved was the water. When what moved
was the land itself. What moved before that, ...
Unfeathered by Marlys West
LAR Online, Poetry
