The Dead Teach Me Grounding Techniques
Put a pebble in your shoe. Slit the deer. Open the gate to the mountains.
The asphalt has begun to pray. Fill the vitrines with moths. Snap a rubber
band around the wrist. ...
Two Poems by Kerri Webster
LAR Online, Poetry
[Stories]
I’m sitting at my kitchen table in a six hundred dollar ergonomic desk chair drinking store-brand cola in a tee shirt I’ve been wearing since last week. I’m writing poems about my sister. In Kunderean ...
Dead Sister by Brian Phillip Whalen
LAR Online, Nonfiction
Review by Stephanie Panozzo
What We Inherit
Jessica Pearce Rotondi
Unnamed Press, April 2020.
$26.00, 264 pp.
ISBN: 978-1-95121-307-7
What prompted me to finally read What We Inherit were wise words from ...
Review: What We Inherit by Jessica Pearce Rotondi
Book Reviews, LAR Online
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...It was not her first try. Last time black eye with
...meth, purple stain down her cheek. July. Now
...I speed through the Carolinas on cruise control
...to Delerium. November. Near Rocky Mount
...or ...
I Am Red as a Heart, She Said, But My Soul Is Inedible by Maureen Seaton
LAR Online, Poetry
The Swallows
I prefer a man with an appetite. My second husband was always putting things into his mouth. Grass. Pennies. Baklava. When visiting friends he never failed to lick their wallpaper. It was repulsive, but ...
Three Stories by Ryan Habermeyer
Fiction, LAR Online
Review by by Noel Quiñones
Tracing the Horse
Diana Marie Delgado
BOA Editions, September 2019.
$17.00; 112 pp.
ISBN: 978-1-942683-87-2
In Diana Marie Delgado’s debut collection Tracing the Horse (BOA ...
Review: Tracing the Horse by Diana Marie Delgado
Book Reviews, LAR Online
It’s true I can’t remember ever being hugged by my mother,
but I do recall being led by my dad to her bedside
every morning near the end. My sister and I stood there
in our backpacks and jumpers, lined up as if ...
Morning Sickness by Jessica Tanck
LAR Online, Poetry
By age forty-five my vertebrae were in full revolt. The revolt sent continual shocks of pain through my right shoulder and up my neck. I'd endured years of MRI's, CT-SCANS, oral medications, steroid injections, and ...
What I Could Not Fix in Myself by Melissa Lewis-Ackerman
LAR Online, Nonfiction
Reviewed by Erica Charis-Molling
Reconstructions
Bradley Trumpfheller
Sibling Rivalry Press, January 2020.
$12.00; 51 pp.
ISBN: 978-1-943977-72-7
In his book, Poetry as Survival, Gregory Orr writes, ...
Review: Reconstructions by Bradley Trumpfheller
Book Reviews, LAR Online
