..............................—for my mother (1923 – 2021)
You never felt as close
to the new shoveled earth as when,
echoed thud on wood still fresh
as the rending of ribbon pinned
over the ...
Translating the Dead by Nancy Naomi Carlson
LAR Online, Poetry
If you passed by a sign twice a day that offered a service where you could anonymously scream away all your pain, fear and loneliness, how long before you tried it?
If Lizzy and Kait charge $3 for screaming in their ...
Ghost Word Problems by Chelsea Stickle
Fiction, LAR Online
Tender the River by Matt W. Miller
Reviewed by Caitlin Cowan
Texas Review Press (April 6, 2021)
ISBN-13 : 978-1-68003-224-6
I Shall Drown Your Books: A Review of Matt W. Miller’s Tender the ...
Tender the River Reviewed by Caitlin Cowan
Book Reviews, LAR Online
Trash
When I walk during the pandemic, I study trash. First day
of school, no children on the street, high school shuttered. I wear
my dead mother’s raincoat. No one likes when I call her my dead ...
Trash by Nicole Cooley
LAR Online, Poetry
“You had an excellent day,” says my boy Kenny. “You didn’t do anything wrong.” Perilous words from the kid who follows me like a joyous five-year-old puppy, underfoot from dawn until dark, inches away from an ...
When I Was Older, I Will Grow Up by Jean Synodinos
Fiction, LAR Online
The Unextinguished Window
By day I see him in the street,
in a dark suit,
razored
combed
wearing a tie—
entire nights his window shines
opposite my window.
Survivor
from ...
Poems Translated by Susan Cohen
LAR Online, Translations
Woman Drinking Absinthe by Katherine E. Young
Alan Squire Publishing, March 2021
$15.99, 71 pages
ISBN: 978-1-942892-24-3
Review by Kristin Kowalski Ferragut
In her poetry ...
Woman Drinking Absinthe Review by Kristin Kowalski Ferragut
Book Reviews, LAR Online
After the fires south of here but everywhere for life
left in the zone, a hundred-and-forty-five millimetres
of rain fell in about sixty hours and did the impossible — flooded
the side of the ...
On Helen Frankenthaler’s On the Cusp (1985) and the White-faced Heron, Circa… by John Kinsella
LAR Online, Poetry
Every day of the trip it stormed. We were supposed to be learning about the geology of Tampa Bay. Instead, the first afternoon we thirteen waited out the rain under a rubberized tarp. Most of us were young professionals, ...
A Hundred Ways to Die by David Lerner Schwartz
Fiction, LAR Online
