In Which the Country Is an Abandoned Amusement Park
Here is the wrecked Zipper, its cages
warrened now with rabbits and crabgrass.
Here is the splintering concession stand.
Once you bought cotton candy and ...
Poetry by Catherine Pierce
LAR Online, Poetry
Never have I sometimes always existed.
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I see him and think: wouldn’t it be lovely? Stand around and chat. Five minutes later I am caught in a conversation, disappointing both him and myself. Nothing worse. So ...
The World’s Sixteen Crucified Saviors by Zach Weber
Fiction, LAR Online
Reviewed by Tyler Sheldon
Late for Cymbal Line
Poetry by Kevin Rabas
Local Gems Press, June 2017
$12, 72 pp.
ISBN-13: 978-1946642073
Kevin Rabas’s Late for Cymbal Line explores struggles for acceptance ...
Book Review: Late for Cymbal Line by Kevin Rabas
Book Reviews, LAR Online
I was taking a walk with the girl I was going to marry, when suddenly my legs stopped working. I drank a bunch of tequila after dinner, and figured that was why. We were on a shady street at night, where all of the ...
The Invisible Hand by Lindsay Sproul
Fiction, LAR Online
RAMADAN LAMENT
“There is courtship, and there is hunger.”
. —MARY SZYBIST
I want to eat my grief and my god
will not allow it. A lesson
in suffering—O!
but Lord—I have suffered.
I ...
Three Poems by Leila Chatti
LAR Online, Poetry
Translated from the Polish by Danusia Stok
I loved him, I looked at my mother. Did she understand? She didn’t turn her head, didn’t lift
her eyelids. She was going through something. I loved him, I tried a second ...
I Loved, When She Departed by Anna Augustyniak
LAR Online, Translations
You watch Jim lift a pizza from the oven. His thin pale arms flex then relax as he lifts the hot cheese and dough and slides it into a box for delivery. You knead your dough, sticky and flexible, and try not to look at ...
You Will Know Elasticity by Rachel Ann Brickner
Fiction, LAR Online
LAR's Assistant Managing Editor interviews Agatha French, a staff writer in Books at the Los Angeles Times. She has worked as an editor for a number of literary journals and magazines, including the Los Angeles Review of ...
Interview with Agatha French
Interviews, LAR Online, Uncategorized
After a painting by the English artist, Stanley Spencer (1891-1959)
You had not known you belonged to such a region
until Spencer took you there, until he showed you
Cookham, where God made a detour down High ...
John Baptizes Jesus at the Odney Pool by Margaret Mackinnon
LAR Online, Poetry
