On My Husband by Rumena Bužarovska
Translated from Macedonian by Paul Filev
McLean, IL/Dublin: Dalkey Archive Press
2019
128 pages
$15.95
Review by: Eva Dunsky
In the United States as of late, we’ve ...
My Husband Review by Eva Dunsky
Book Reviews, LAR Online
Just the other night
when a friend asked me Did that really happen I said, I think so
When I was about 9
lawn chairs goggles ketchup packets towels soggy paperbacks suntan oil twisted up into the ...
The Deep End, Rewind by Marietta Brill
LAR Online, Poetry
A Piece of Mountain
By: Sholeh Rezazadeh
Translated by: Sophie Atkins
There’s snow on the Mishoodaghi mountains. The sun is shining on my face and the cool mountain breeze blows across my cheeks. From ...
A Piece of Mountain Translated by Sophie Atkins
LAR Online, Translations
Body position as Rorschach test. Arms wide, Jesus on the cross—one leg stretched, one tucked, Jesus on the cross—elbows in—out—mimicking your lungs now and you can believe instead you’re a true jellyfish. You ...
A Frame by Melissa L. Amstutz
Flash Fiction, LAR Online
Twenty-Five
We were genuine
naugahyde when we met,
which is to say
we knew how to fake
our real feelings
with a side of vulnerability.
Sex helped, then ...
Two Poems by Fritz Ward
LAR Online, Poetry
You reek of weed, menthols, and beer as you walk me to my car from your house.
It’s three in the morning. The snow is ice beneath our feet. The music, voices, and light that fill the house fade as we walk. Our ...
Happy New Year by C.A. Olsen
Flash Fiction, LAR Online
Cleave by Tiana Nobile
Review by: Megan Pinto
Spartanburg: Hub City Press, 2021
72 pages
$16.00
From “Child’s Pre-Flight Report”:
Name in Full: Moon, Yeong Shin ....................Case ...
Cleave Review by Megan Pinto
Book Reviews, LAR Online
ROWING, AND THEN LIGHT
The lines given me by the river, I’ll leave to the river.
Islands of sky flicker the brim, and then
light
on the tangled marsh.
Light where ...
Two Poems by Molly Spencer
LAR Online, Poetry
At first, most of the partygoers thought it was a joke. A stunt. Part of the entertainment, surely. After all, they were promised a show. They’d been raised on a steady diet of the extreme, each video of the influencer ...
