Winner of the 2020 Los Angeles Review Literary Awards, in the category of poetry.
Final Judge: Francisco Aragón
What world did I open
by finding you—forty dollars of
milk-pale beast. Each of our lives
started ...
Thrift Store Fur by Aimee Seu
Award Winners, LAR Online, Poetry
In her treatise The Writing Life, Annie Dillard notably wrote, “How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our life. What we do with this hour, and that one, is what we are doing. A schedule defends from chaos ...
Catching Days by Catherine Johnson
LAR Online, Nonfiction
review by Susan Nordmark
Crow Mind
by Tobey Hiller
Finishing Line Press, 2020
$14.99, 32 pp.
ISBN: 978-0963120717
Crow Mind is Tobey Hiller’s third poetry collection and her first in over ten years, ...
Review: Crow Mind by Tobey Hiller
Book Reviews, LAR Online
No one had ever heard him speak, so when Hayden Boyd stepped into the tire pit at Ridgemont Middle School and invoked Suicide #5, the boys broke into nervous laughter, shaken by the unexpected depth of his voice and the ...
Hearsay by John Phillips
Flash Fiction, LAR Online
We invited them over, from their fields to ours.
To join us naked and playful, to give them
Hope. To watch us joyfully trample our own lands—
And witness the greening anew overnight.
Our fields. Paid for, no ...
Neighborly by Martha Rhodes
LAR Online, Poetry
The New God
We looked at the map
All those rivers we had crossed
searching for that new god
the priests said
was born for our sake
When we reached his homeland
We found crowds
marching in his funeral ...
Three Poems by Sinan Antoon
LAR Online, Translations
Reviewed by Cynthia Hogue
The State She’s In
by Lesley Wheeler
Tinderbox Editions, 2020
$18.00; 96 pp.
ISBN: 978-1-943981-17-5
Lesley Wheeler’s fifth collection of poetry, The State She’s In ...
Review: The State She’s In by Lesley Wheeler
Book Reviews, LAR Online
Underground for years, cicada-like, it
surfaces, starts the sad, bright sawing:
my story of your story. Something triggers,
un-expectedly. Curly haired kid at the cash
register or the way a woman cups one ...
Should I Listen to the Trees by Jane Poirier Hart
LAR Online, Poetry
When Small Man looks past the glare of spotlights, into the audience, he can see their white teeth gleaming, their smiles ear to ear. He’s thinking about this song he’s playing, this horrible slack key song called ...
What Covers the House is a Roof by Matthew R. K. Haynes
Fiction, LAR Online
