June Cleaver didn’t keep her house in perfect order. The prop man did it. —Barbara Billingsly
An enchantment and virtual bonding with June Cleaver grew over the span of roughly 93 weeks in 2015-16 ...
June: The Mother We Thought We Knew by Cris Mazza
LAR Online, Nonfiction
by Brooke Green
A Nail the Evening Hangs On
Monica Sok
Copper Canyon Press, February 2020.
$17.00; 60 pp.
ISBN: 978-1556595608
Monica Sok’s radiant debut collection, A Nail the Evening Hangs On, ...
Review: A Nail the Evening Hangs On by Monica Sok
Book Reviews, LAR Online
the swift and ceaseless sprinkler whirling
and flinging its bright globes
drop by drop has filled a blue bowl
left out on the lawn. The little pool
formed by that embrace never stops
breaking and ...
For Those Who Would See by Derek Sheffield
LAR Online, Poetry
Do not look at girls, your dad warns you at the beginning of your teenage years. The first accidental glance is okay, he says. The second is sin.
Your dad. A large man. Powerful eyes. Solemn face. When talking to him ...
Do Not Look at Girls by Rahad Abir
Fiction, LAR Online
Translated by Izidora Angel
On the morning he set off from the village mounted on the old donkey, none of the villagers gathered lamented his leaving and yet their sendoff was strangely ceremonious.
They bowed to ...
Amen by Yordanka Beleva
LAR Online, Translations
Doe
Caught between stumble & rise, the doe
young, the day entering twilight.
............We drive north, others south, cars
driving home in the corridor of woods.
Her struggle to right herself loops like a ...
Two Poems by Suzanne Frischkorn
LAR Online, Poetry
Everything you said about poetry, I wanted to get naked with. You quoted the immortals: W.H. Auden saying we’re making a “verbal object,” Carl Sandburg claiming a poem was “an echo asking a shadow to dance,” ...
I Want to Fuck Your Poem by Tammy Delatorre
LAR Online, Nonfiction
by Joshua Escobar
Wild Invocations
Ysabel Y. González
Get Fresh Books, March 2019.
$20.00; 70 pp.
ISBN:0998935859
Recollections, resolutions, and rifts make up this collection, which focuses on a young ...
Review: Wild Invocations by Ysabel Y. González
Book Reviews, LAR Online
For Shira
At my mother's funeral, a reading,
from the book of memory, and from the book of dreams,
and from the book of love, a reading,
from before I knew how, also known
as the book of secrets, and from the book ...
LECTIONARY by David Moolten
LAR Online, Poetry
