

She is still teaching me all the ways I can bleed.
Black ice near invisible on the asphalt. Shattered
bottles trashed near the freeway. My body
welts quicker than a pear. Her body ...
Still Life With Womb and Nine Imagined Siblings by Natalia Conte
LAR Online, Poetry

On Christmas Eve night Britany McConnell and Christian McConnell went outside to set up a trampoline for their children. Trampolines had been formative to both Britany and Christian; a place to learn to flip before the big ...
Trampoline by Jonny TwoxFour
Fiction, LAR Online

I’m getting ready for a doctor’s appointment when Lucy pokes her head into my room and tells me that T texted and asked if she could come over for the goodbye dinner. “What goodbye dinner?” I ask and Lucy ...
The Goodbye Dinner by Dorothy Barnhouse
LAR Online, Nonfiction

On the Line: A Story of Class, Solidarity, and Two Women's Epic Fight to Build a Union
by Daisy Pitkin
Review by Beth Alvarado
ISBN: 978-1-64375-071-2
262 pp
Publication Date: March 29th, 2022
Algonquin ...
Book by Daisy Pitkin Review by Beth Alvarado
Book Reviews, LAR Online

I drive by the garden center every day; there’s no shortcut home. But I never look. I never even glance out the window to check if I can see him. Stacking firewood in that ratty old lumberjack coat, those brown boots ...
The Void by Christine Alexander
Flash Fiction, LAR Online

Fighting Is Like A Wife
By Eloisa Amezcua
Coffeehouse Press
Release Date: April 2022
ISBN 978-1-56689-642-8
$16.95
88pgs
Ring Intimates
Review by Angie Dribben
Eloisa Amezcua’s Fighting Is Like ...
Book by Eloisa Amezcua Review by Angie Dribben
Book Reviews, LAR Online

1.
Россию отменят. Вместе с Пушкиным и Толстым.
Когда рассеется дым
Над Украиной,
Мы окажемся на руинах
Царства. ...
5 poems by Tatiana Voltskaya translated by Richard Coombes
LAR Online, Translations

The 32-Cent Heart
If the summer never comes, then we will learn
to love the gray, the way it unfurls the windows,
makes a flush of robins crackle in ornamental fig.
At the farm, a lamb has come, ...
2 Poems by Erin Elizabeth Smith
LAR Online, Poetry

This was the difference between being the graduate student with a piece of shit car and being the professor with the keys to an office—well, one of them anyway. You never needed to utter I feel or In my opinion or If ...