Arnisha Royston is a Pushcart Nominated poet from Los Angeles. Having started in Spoken Word and moved closer toward the written page, Arnisha is drawn to poetry that is intimate and urgent, with ...
3 poems by Arnisha Royston
LAR Online, Poetry
In the winter of the second grade, Miss Rudd wrote K-E-V-I-N in giant chalk letters on the board and told us he’d be coming back that day. Miss Rudd had shiny hazel hair that flowed down to her waist; she wore billowy ...
Paper Angels by Donna Obeid
Flash Fiction, LAR Online
after K. Iver
Start when my grandparents were fifteen.
The first time. They stood at an altar.
Hand-in-. Hand. They lied. Said they were.
Of age. This time. Their parents don’t ...
Family History Rewrite by Jaz Sufi
LAR Online, Poetry
The bronze plaque in the entrance hall shows the year of construction: 1962. And some information about the architect and the co-op. No, this apartment building at the intersection of Essex and Grand, overlooking two ...
A Cheese written and translated by Lotte Brown
LAR Online, Translations
If Some God Shakes Your House by Jennifer Franklin
Review by Gillian Perry
Publisher: Four Way Books
Publication Date: March 2023
ISBN: 978-1954245488
Pages: 96
A Window, An Open House
Jennifer ...
If Some God Shakes Your House by Jennifer Franklin Review by Gillian Perry
Book Reviews, LAR Online
It turns out it would have been snowing on your birthday. Large soft flakes fly up like down, and later corn snow bounces off my black coat. And it would have been raining. And it would have been sunny. And the wind ...
Lamentation 2 by Anne de Marcken
LAR Online, Nonfiction
The morning of my birth, the mill beside the hospital burned.
My father was standing at home
by a window, watching the horizon, his daughter
dying. So many small deaths have happened ...
Cosmology with Self-Ascending by Mary Helen Callier
LAR Online, Poetry
My four-year-old is obsessed with my ex-husband.
“That is David Nields,” says Johnny pointing at a circle with dots for eyes, a big U for a smile, and two stick legs coming down from the circle’s bottom. He ...
Jack the Giant Killer by Nerissa Nields
LAR Online, Nonfiction
Born to a possibly noble Lombard family, Paul the Deacon (c. 720 – c. 790) represents one of the premier authors of the Carolingian Renaissance, a flowering of literary, artistic, and intellectual activity in ...
Poem by Paul the Deacon Translated by Christian Lopac
LAR Online, Translations
