“You had an excellent day,” says my boy Kenny. “You didn’t do anything wrong.” Perilous words from the kid who follows me like a joyous five-year-old puppy, underfoot from dawn until dark, inches away from an ...
When I Was Older, I Will Grow Up by Jean Synodinos
Flash Fiction, LAR Online
The Unextinguished Window
By day I see him in the street,
in a dark suit,
razored
combed
wearing a tie—
entire nights his window shines
opposite my window.
Survivor
from ...
Poems Translated by Susan Cohen
LAR Online, Translations
Woman Drinking Absinthe by Katherine E. Young
Alan Squire Publishing, March 2021
$15.99, 71 pages
ISBN: 978-1-942892-24-3
Review by Kristin Kowalski Ferragut
In her poetry ...
Woman Drinking Absinthe Review by Kristin Kowalski Ferragut
Book Reviews, LAR Online
After the fires south of here but everywhere for life
left in the zone, a hundred-and-forty-five millimetres
of rain fell in about sixty hours and did the impossible — flooded
the side of the ...
On Helen Frankenthaler’s On the Cusp (1985) and the White-faced Heron, Circa… by John Kinsella
LAR Online, Poetry
Every day of the trip it stormed. We were supposed to be learning about the geology of Tampa Bay. Instead, the first afternoon we thirteen waited out the rain under a rubberized tarp. Most of us were young professionals, ...
A Hundred Ways to Die by David Lerner Schwartz
Fiction, LAR Online
Quiet
Quiet is the loudest thing, that's what the old folks say.
Quiet gets you fastening scabbards around your waist.
Quiet shouldn't be denied. And me, I won't deny it.
Quiet augurs much ahead. Protect ...
Translations by Richard Prins
LAR Online, Translations
Everybody Tells You That It's Going to Be Okay
but you remember middle school, that time you told your buddy the same thing. You’d spent the day trading cards. He’d lost one of yours in his cargo short pocket ...
Everybody Tells You That It’s Going to Be Okay by Ian Cappelli
LAR Online, Poetry
A selection of poems from The Animal Is Chemical by Hadara Bar-Nadav
Author’s note: The poems published in the Los Angeles Review are from my manuscript-in-progress The Animal Is Chemical. The central metaphor ...
Poems from The Animal Is Chemical by Hadara Bar-Nadav
LAR Online, Poetry
I thought I had spider bites. The itchy dots on the edge of my shoulder blade popped up the day I found a dead spider crushed on my bedsheet, three eyelash-like legs and the crumpled corpse. The day before I had carried ...
Scratch by Chip Livingston
LAR Online, Nonfiction
