Improvisation Without Accompaniment
By Matt Morton
BOA Editions
Publication Date: April 7, 2020
ISBN: 978-1-942683-95-7
84 pages
$17
The Instruction of Delight
On Matt Morton’s ...
Improvisation Without Accompaniment Review by Caleb Braun
Book Reviews, LAR Online
The trees are very unhappy to be trees,
unhappiness along my street, ancient live oaks.
Just like people, they long to be something else.
No one asked a cloud to be a cloud
or me human, a man. I’d ...
Cat at My Front Door Looking In by Peter Cooley
LAR Online, Poetry
We loved the taste of tamarind. A shop not far from our school in Bihar, India, sold pulpy tamarind candies. They were embedded with sugar crystals and coated with black pepper. The sweetness cut into the sourness and ...
Tamarind by Mohit Manohar
Flash Fiction, LAR Online
Multiverse
Let us breathe
The air of peace and reason
Inside the office
Outside the bridge
Let us praise
The city’s skyscrapers
Diligent citizens
Absolute rule of ...
3 Poems Translated by May Huang
LAR Online, Translations
Ghost Hour by Laura Cronk
Persea Books
December 2020
Paperback $15.95
ISBN 978-0-89255-519-2
104 pages
The Poetics of Self-Removal in Laura Cronk’s Ghost Hour
In Laura Cronk’s Ghost ...
Ghost Hour Review by Amanda Auerbach
Book Reviews, LAR Online
..............................—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
Flash 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 ...
