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Lunch under the naked sky by Jana Putrle Srdić co-translated with Sue Vickerman What day is it? The first of Microseason 46.  Ok. In four days, all insects will be underground, then it’s our next shift. Four days. ...

A Short Story by Jana Putrle Srdić Translated by Jana Putrle Srdić and Sue Vickerman

LAR Online, Translations

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Bare Ana and Other Stories by Robert Shapard Review by Steve Heller Publisher: Regal House Press Publication Date: September 2, 2025 ISBN: 97816460335328 Pages : 128 Sudden Excellence We used to call them ...

Bare Ana and Other Stories by Robert Shapard Review by Steve Heller

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Eloisa Amezcua is from Arizona. She is the author of Fighting Is Like a Wife (Coffee House Press, April 2022) and From the Inside Quietly, inaugural winner of the Shelterbelt Poetry Prize ...

from The God Poems by Eloisa Amezcua

Electronic Lit, LAR Online, Poetry

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The horizon wasn’t sewn in a straight line. It looked unstitched. Ruched. Wind torn whitecaps like stuffing clawed from a quilt. He could see the silken clarity of cobalt blue interrupt the slate green water that ...

Two Red Flags by James Lowell

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Over Thanksgiving, my mother tells me that wearing black casts illusions. At first, I hear that it makes one’s body look dimmer. Outside, the daylight fades from everywhere at once. The specific music of a Northern ...

Self Portrait as Candle Song by Cole Pragides

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Your Wi-Fi is a birdsongHere it is, National Bison Day, and I’m left aloneby the group, which makes me the easiest prey.So let’s go over the safety stuff. If a bison loves you,it will show you with its head. Well, ...

Two Poems by Péter Závada Translated by Péter Závada and Kris Herbert

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“Tomorrow belongs to those of us who conceive of it as belonging to everyone, who lend the best of ourselves to it, and with joy.” — Audre Lorde, “A Burst of Light” “Joy is an act of resistance.” — Toi ...

Introducing LAR Latinx Digital Poetics: Resistance Through Joy

Electronic Lit, LAR Online, Poetry

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When Eyimofe told Yewande that he would be returning home for this season’s Christmas and New Year holidays, she decided to keep it a secret from everyone who had been a part of his journey to America. But everyone who ...

Bugs From America by Temi Mosimiloluwa

Fiction, LAR Online

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Small Altars by Justin Gardiner Review by Amilya Robinson Publisher: Tupelo Press Publication Date: 04/03/24 ISBN-13: 978-1-961209-06-0 Pages: 67 In the Shadow of Heroes: A Review of Justin Gardiner’s Small ...

Small Altars by Justin Gardiner Review by Amilya Robinson

Book Reviews, LAR Online

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