reviewed by Kion You
DMZ Colony
Don Mee Choi
Wave Books, April 2020.
$20.00; 152pp.
ISBN: 978-1-94069-695-9
Although Don Mee Choi's new collection DMZ Colony weaves together oral history, memoir, ...
Review: DMZ Colony by Don Mee Choi
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Winner of the 2018 Los Angeles Review Literary Awards, in the category of Flash Fiction.
Final Judge: Ron Koertge
There was a girl one year ahead of Brian who believed she was Eric Clapton's girlfriend. They ...
Eric Clapton’s Girlfriend by John Mattson
Award Winners, Fiction, LAR Online
.....................................................in memoriam: Randy Pugh (1946-2017)
You thought I would need you to speak for me.
........I do not. Here I am again,
this time as the perennial question: ...
my own Eulogy by Robert Henriques
LAR Online, Poetry
The bell tinkled, and maybe nobody heard it at first; but it tinkled again, and everyone did and pretended not to; and then it tinkled a third time and nobody could, with any credibility, pretend that the bell was not ...
The Bell by Paige Powell
Fiction, LAR Online
translated by Siavash Saadlou
The Fall Hastens
In memory of Masoud Mohammadi
Over on the branches beset by pillage
they are making the bed for ravens.
This is how the city falls prey to the autumn;
a city, ...
Five Poems by Mohammad-Ali Sepanlou
LAR Online, Translations
Winner of the 2018 Los Angeles Review Literary Awards, in the category of Creative Nonfiction.
Final Judge: Sarah Cannon
My mother takes anastrozole as adjuvant therapy to reduce her risk of recurrence of breast ...
A Brief Encyclopedia of My Mother’s Cancer by Anna Leahy
Award Winners, LAR Online, Nonfiction
As with anything, it begins
with a conversation. The perfumer
asks your blood type, your dog’s
name and temperament, the color
of the sky on your fourteenth birthday.
Tell her about the oil-metal scent
of your ...
Tailor-Made by Brianna Noll
LAR Online, Poetry
At daybreak, looking out my study’s rain-splattered, second-story window facing the backyard, I saw boughs and leaves unsettled against a backdrop of gray. Strewn on the grass were tulip poplar blooms loosened by wind, ...
Of Reality and Other Illusions by Nancy Naomi Carlson
LAR Online, Nonfiction
reviewed by Mandana Chaffa
The Clearing
Allison Adair
Milkweed Press, June 2020.
$22.00; 88 pp.
ISBN: 978-1571315144
“What if this time instead of crumbs the girl drops / teeth, her own, what else does ...
Review: The Clearing by Allison Adair
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