

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

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
Award Winners, Fiction, LAR Online

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
LAR Online, Translations

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
Book Reviews, LAR Online

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
Award Winners, LAR Online, Poetry

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
LAR Online, Nonfiction

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
Book Reviews, LAR Online

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
Fiction, LAR Online

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 ...