Nuclear Fictions
We are completely miserable
but no one can tell
from the smiles on our faces.
Everyone is watching us on TV from home.
They think it’s a show about foxes. ...
Nuclear Fictions by Marcelo Hernandez Castillo
LAR Online, Poetry
Reviewed by Susan Thurston
Cooking with the Muse: A Sumptuous Gathering of Seasonal Recipes, Culinary Poetry, and Literary Fare
by Myra Kornfeld and Stephen Massimilla
Tupelo Press, April 2016
$32.95; 500 ...
Book Review: Cooking with the Muse: A Sumptuous Gathering of Seasonal Recipes, Culinary Poetry, and Literary Fare by Myra Kornfeld and Stephen Massimilla
LAR Online, Poetry
Brother Fire
Feed me. Feeeed me. These are not
the only words it knows but they’re
the only words it needs. And most times,
it’s two words too many. Most times, ...
Hagiography of Brother Fire and Sister Smoke by Rigoberto González
LAR Online, Poetry
In the middle of the empty field the barn stands abandoned.
I duck through the broken door, letting my vision adjust
to the inner dark. Bottles of Grain Belt litter
the floorboards. Corn-pipes. Condoms. Marlboro ...
Party Barn by Kai Carlson-Wee
LAR Online, Poetry
the taco vender/reciting/darío/in a moment/of passion—
I swear it was him that night, 2012, late July . . .
We were hoofing it down Guadalupe looking
for a dive—how many were we and who? He’d hauled
his ...
Poem Beginning with a Fragment of Andrés Montoya by Francisco Aragón
LAR Online, Poetry
Old Church
Haunted so we didn’t follow him
inside. Posing at a broken window
he thumbed the dusty pages, preaching
like our dad. Between passages
he puffed his cheeks and wormed
his fat tongue between forked ...
Two Poems by Anders Carlson-Wee
LAR Online, Poetry
for S & E
After many years, it occurred to me to write of my friends,
of their long marriage,
of the woman who woke one morning
to find an elk had laid down on their porch for the night
to sleep like some ...
Iridescent Lake by Katie Ford
LAR Online, Poetry
My tender love, my father,
feet still warm from circling
the sacred fire, poured
burnt engine oil
into a gopher tortoise’s hole,
the earth drank black.
He planted an orange tree
meters away. Its fruit was ...
Neemakharam by Rajiv Mohabir
LAR Online, Poetry
Throne
After James Hampton’s The Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations Millennium General Assembly “Where There Is No Vision The People Perish” —Hampton, Proverbs 29:18
To happen on it, resplendent in its ...
Throne by Gina Franco
LAR Online, Poetry
