one of her big boys rips open a packet of matador spinach seeds,strews them amid a diameter of potted dirt and waits for water and sun to do their thing in the dark stairwell alcove. show me yours, water says, and sun ...
WHEN A BLACK WOMAN DIES by AKHIM YUSEFF CABEY
LAR Online, Poetry
Faith (after Alain Bosquet)
God tempts me in my language.
As I reject Him, I feel remorse.
He is that within me which is
repulsed by the smallness in me.
I create God to limit ...
Two Poems by Joshua McKinney
LAR Online, Poetry
Tuesday afternoons my prof & I would meet because I knew the guy who supervised the cages, who’d unlock the token box so we could swing for free. I’d watch as Alan — bifocals sweat-streaked & pacemaker ...
Intro to Poetry by Reed Turchi
LAR Online, Poetry
after Lucille CliftonThe morning of your birthday, I take the C train downtown. Find your shadowin every corner of this city: the dark geometry of skyscrapers, the curvatureof black birds. A man’s voice, tired as ...
The Arrogance of Days by Jeffrey Liao
LAR Online, Poetry
Where is the poem? I google the obvious and the algorithm spits back Poe’s “TheRaven” to me. I find this surprising, but not completely wrong.I ask an AI about this search result, and the bot responds that the ...
Resistance to by Alex Saum
Electronic Lit, LAR Online, Poetry
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Alex Rivera is an MFA student studying poetry at the University of South Florida. His poetry explores topics of masculinity, migration, and marginalization through the lens of family ...
Instructions on Growing by Alex Rivera
Electronic Lit, LAR Online, Poetry
Joshua Escobar is author of the chapbooks Califorkya Voltage (No, Dear/Small Anchor) and xxox fm (Doublecross Press), a full-length collection of poems, Bareback ...
Love Letter by Joshua Escobar
Electronic Lit, LAR Online, Poetry
Eloisa Amezcua is from Arizona. She is the author of Fighting Is Like a Wife (Coffee House Press, April 2022) and From the Inside Quietly, inaugural winner of the Shelterbelt Poetry Prize ...
from The God Poems by Eloisa Amezcua
Electronic Lit, LAR Online, Poetry
“Tomorrow belongs to those of us who conceive of it as belonging to everyone, who lend the best of ourselves to it, and with joy.” — Audre Lorde, “A Burst of Light”
“Joy is an act of resistance.” — Toi ...
Introducing LAR Latinx Digital Poetics: Resistance Through Joy
Electronic Lit, LAR Online, Poetry
