To Mokattam at Dawn*
You bathe your rocky ornaments in mists,
.......................let roselight bleed into your cracks.
The Star slowly mounts: his light drenches ...
3 Poems by May Ziadeh translated by Rose DeMaris
LAR Online, Translations
There was no beauty in the scene in front of Edna. She held a baby in her right arm; the left sagged empty with missing weight of a second. A ripe and bitter aura had come alive right when the babies were born; one blue ...
Tandem by Jamie Kahn
Fiction, LAR Online
because blood oaths are overrated, I make mine with anyone:
the cracked cup. the cotton shift. the synchronies of women,
what I set my clocks upon. I dream us in our bedroom hair
and each others’ rouge. I ...
currency by Indrani Sengupta
LAR Online, Poetry
“Cow so evil, so bully, knock your spirit right out yuh chest. Fall on yuh ass and pray to God yuh ain't dead,” Lilith's Uncle Man told her before she left. Her grip on the barrel of clothes had already numbed her ...
Wash Day by Stephanie Mullings
Flash Fiction, LAR Online
Curb
Divya Victor
review by Mandana Chaffa
Nightboat Books, April 2021, 128 pages, $17.95
Divya Victor’s Curb explores immigration, identity, and the boundaries that keep us safe and those that ...
Curb by Divya Victor review by Mandana Chaffa
Book Reviews, LAR Online
On October 30, 1938, Orson Welles read a radio play of
H. G. Wells’s novel, believed by many who heard it to be
a true, live reporting of an invasion from Mars. Some women
were even said to have run out, ...
The War of the Worlds by Sarah Crossland
LAR Online, Poetry
Pasillos
Iré por los pasillos
haciendo caso omiso
de los charcos transparentes,
de las eléctricas guiñadas,
de los derruidos calefactores.
Cada puerta esconde un ...
4 Poems by Miguel Avero Translated by Jona Colson
LAR Online, Translations
I disappeared from the ranch in the summer, but every day was summer on the ranch.
Townspeople called it Manure Ranch, because the stench of cow shit made everyone in the commune stink. We really called ourselves ...
Cherry Picker by Shyla Jones
Fiction, LAR Online
DIMINUENDO FOR THE SHORT FRENCH VERSE OF RILKE
It was believed he wrote less and less in German until he had to salvage
what was left by packing it quickly into one suitcase, a small ...
3 Poems by David Keplinger
LAR Online, Poetry
