reviewed by Sarah Carey
Kyrie
Ellen Bryant Voigt
W.W. Norton and Company, 1995
$17.95; 79 pp.
ISBN: 9780393037968
If past is prologue … the saying goes. If we knew then, what we know now…, we might ...
Review: Kyrie by Ellen Bryant Voigt
Book Reviews, LAR Online
In college, a girl named Libby streaked alone across the quad, limbs loose and windblown, her body a ribbon. Past the dining hall, past the new dorms, she kept on going. We cheered and roared and everyone we knew was ...
Streaker in Saratoga by Julie Goldberg
Flash Fiction, LAR Online
State tests found more than 65,000 children in the city
with dangerously high blood-lead levels from 1993 to 2013.
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Even Ovid knew it was love’s antidote—
the arrow meant for ...
Half-Lives by Carol Quinn
LAR Online, Poetry, Uncategorized
We had not fought in a week, but this was no cause to celebrate, seeing as how the peace between us had taken on a blunt, wieldable shape, something that could be used as easily for evidence as for a weapon. We were out ...
The Vacationer by Tim Lane
Fiction, LAR Online
translated by Allana Noyes
Ambrosia prayed for the rain that soaked the buildings down to their foundations, and the howling wind made its presence felt until dawn when it finished by smashing the houses to pieces. ...
Ambrosia Prayed for Rain By Noé Blancas-Blancas
LAR Online, Translations
Because I thought it was raining, I leaned back
into a deeper part of myself. Womb-like, safe.
The house was sturdy, would survive high winds,
though none were on the radar. Why did I think
it was raining? It ...
At the End of Each Sentence by Jeff Hardin
LAR Online, Poetry
Eight Years Later to the Day
Ice. Blue. Dark sky. Well below zero. A blizzard across the staircase. The wooden steps were old and worn slippery. Red PJs blue snow boots and dad’s red dressing gown thick and warm. The ...
Two Flash Essays by Sarah Leamy
LAR Online, Nonfiction
reviewed by Brian Finney
Utopia Avenue
David Mitchell
Random House, July 14, 2020
$17.28; 592 pp.
ISBN: 978-0812997439
It is five years since David Mitchell released his last novel, Slade House (2015). ...
Review: Utopia Avenue by David Mitchell
Book Reviews, LAR Online
Saw my brother in a wolf, in wildflowers
climate change, bobcats, javelina, and praying
mantis, lilac scent, laughter. Saw him howling
himself back onto the sidewalk of his life
before he lay his body in front of a ...
Missing by Mary Morris
LAR Online, Poetry
