This was back when I was dating Ziggy, when I didn’t know any better, about anything. He had this leather jacket—vintage, according to him, and handmade from the most venerable bull on his grandfather’s ...
Mystery Men by Katie Cortese
Fiction, LAR Online
Blue Physics by Mary Lou Buschi
Review by Zainab Omaki
Publisher: Lily Poetry Review Books
Publication Date: February 7, 2024
ISBN: 9781957755380
Pages: 78
Mary Lou Buschi’s third full-length ...
Blue Physics by Mary Lou Buschi Review by Zainab Omaki
Book Reviews, LAR Online
Winter
Meanwhile, what had been green went gray
and became a concept from a manual on keeping orchards.
Outside the window, the civilization of reason is in uneventful bloom. The experts
in weather are ...
Poems from “Kameraden” by Krzysztof Jaworski translated from the Polish by Benjamin Paloff
LAR Online, Translations
Mother is weaving a net on the ceiling made of sailors’ rope. She braids, knots, and untangles, muttering instructions from a maritime book she found in Granddaddy’s collection. It will be sturdy and beautiful, she ...
Water by Alison Jean Kinney
Flash Fiction, LAR Online
I.
I have unfinished business with the penis.
Don’t we all? We live in a phallocentric world (yes, yes, cultural differences aside) that is obsessed with, privileges, worships, and fears (losing) the penis. This ...
Unfinished Business by Gil Z. Hochberg
LAR Online, Nonfiction
Under the Florida sun’s stern gaze,
parents too busy
fighting to watch us in the yard,
my brother and I hunt
for lizards in the loquat trees
brimming with mini-suns,
chase them skittering ...
Young Lizard Kings by Ariel Francisco
LAR Online, Poetry
You make a list of the things you can’t afford: name brand anything, soda, bar soap, you get all your cleaning products at the Dollar Tree—which only recently started pricing products at $1.25. Still, you tell your ...
Death, and Other Things You Can’t Afford by Kendra Pintor
Flash Fiction, LAR Online
Adam in the Garden by AE Hines
Review by Russell Karrick
Publisher: Charlotte Lit Press
Publication Date: March 1, 2024
ISBN: 1960558072
Pages: 100
Heaven Nowhere But Here: A Review of AE Hines’ ...
Adam in the Garden by AE Hines Review by Russell Karrick
Book Reviews, LAR Online
Edward Gunawan's Introductory Translator Notes
These poems are by Hendri Yulius Wijaya, written in Bahasa Indonesia mixed with a spattering of English words and expressions. They are published as a full-length ...
Poems by Hendri Yulius Wijaya Translated by Edward Gunawan
LAR Online, Translations
