No one tries to become a ghost.
But then you wake spectral
in the barrel of an empty shotgun
apartment like an unspent round.
Apart-ment. You lose your self in the erasure
of the city’s map: Independence ...
Unf n shed Bus ness by Benjamin Aleshire
LAR Online, Poetry
Q stepped out of his car and closed the door as a rush of heat filled his lungs. The noxious smell of petroleum dizzied his head. Q listened for oncoming traffic as he passed by a long row of nested shopping carts being ...
Pour by Daniel Verret
Fiction, LAR Online
translated by Meryl Natchez and Karina McCorkle
To Faina, galya, mother, father, grandmother, valya, sveta, and all the others living and dead [1]
1
when we lived in Siberia
we were hollowed out
we were ...
Excerpted from “When we lived in Siberia” by Oksana Vasyakina
LAR Online, Translations
First runner-up in the 2020 Los Angeles Review Literary Awards, in the category of nonfiction.
Final Judge: Aimee Liu
Jamel Myles is gone and it has taken me over a year to write about it.
Jamel Myles is gone and ...
Notes Towards an Elegy by Keegan Lawler
Award Winners, LAR Online, Nonfiction
When she’s starving herself
When she lets her bones rise like the wreck of the Frances
at the convergence of minus tides, new moons,
after a winter of superstorms:
When you consider the thumb-sucking ...
Feast by Carla Panciera
LAR Online, Poetry
Winner of the 2020 Los Angeles Review Literary Awards, in the category of nonfiction.
Final Judge: Aimee Liu
Bored with straight-laced Israeli mores, I was determined to have sex with M. Tonight. I slipped on an ...
Graduate Studies in Hebrew by Sue William Silverman
Award Winners, LAR Online, Nonfiction
review by Kion You
Sansei and Sensibility
by Karen Tei Yamashita
Coffee House Press, May 2020
$16.95, 232pp
ISBN: 978-1-56689-578-1
“Japanese Americans were used to Japanese Americans,” Karen Tei ...
Review: Sansei and Sensibility by Karen Tei Yamashita
Book Reviews, LAR Online
Winner of the 2020 Los Angeles Review Literary Awards, in the category of flash fiction.
Final Judge: Ellen Meeropol
It tugs at my nipple. Only the first pull is uncomfortable, then it finds its rhythm. I ...
Put A Teat In It! by Jennifer Lewis
Award Winners, Fiction, LAR Online
First runner-up in the 2020 Los Angeles Review Literary Awards, in the category of poetry.
Final Judge: Francisco Aragón
is the history of migration
even the continents refuse
to stay in one place
one day these ...
The History of the Earth by Miguel Angel Garcia, Jr.
Award Winners, LAR Online, Poetry
