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Alex Rivera is an MFA student studying poetry at the University of South Florida. His poetry explores topics of masculinity, migration, and marginalization through the lens of family ...
Instructions on Growing by Alex Rivera
Electronic Lit, LAR Online, Poetry
Her husband Kevin had made a pot of inedible chili and Megan was livid. She had told him not to deviate from the recipe she’d perfected: chili powder and chili flakes, diced bell peppers, ground beef seared in a hot ...
Chili Night by Gwen E. Kirby
Flash Fiction, LAR Online
I have a pebble in my right nipple. Or a pebble-size something. I found it one night lying in bed, and as I rolled it around under one finger to determine the size, I went into auto defense: a little cyst, ...
Waiting by Caroline Sutton
LAR Online, Nonfiction
A Woman Runs Within a Newspaper, Ablaze Sell my death to the newspapers,and tell the news to the ravens.I opposed the rocksthat agitated the river’s quiet,derailing the fish’s gentle strolls.I placed myself in the ...
A Poem by Younes Rezaie Translated by Himan Heidari
Translations
Joshua Escobar is author of the chapbooks Califorkya Voltage (No, Dear/Small Anchor) and xxox fm (Doublecross Press), a full-length collection of poems, Bareback ...
Love Letter by Joshua Escobar
Electronic Lit, LAR Online, Poetry
Raw almonds, ¼ cup
Raw cantaloupe, 1 cup
Steamed broccoli, 1/2 cup
Cheetos, 1 bag
Turned to internet last night, despite better judgment. Didn’t know what else to do, have been trying to get less fat for months now ...
Figures by Sophie Grossman
Fiction, LAR Online
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
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
Book Reviews, LAR Online
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
