Rodney Gomez is a 2023 NEA Creative Writing Fellow and author of Arsenal with Praise Song (Orison Books, 2021), recipient of the Helen C. Smith Memorial Award from the Texas Institute of Letters. He ...
2 poems by Rodney Gomez
LAR Online, Poetry
My son’s pirate robe hangs in the closet
next to my coat. Dusty shoulders silver
the sunlight when I lift the hanger
to breathe him in. In dreams, I close
my eyes to fly over cities he’s ...
Miles by Dara-Lyn Shrager
LAR Online, Poetry
Artist StatementIn October of last year I flew home to take care of my mother after she fell off a ladder and shattered her heel bone in thirteen places. While at home, I discovered a cache of Polaroid photographs of my ...
POLAROIDS BY NICK MARTINO
Poetry
Who’s parting?—El Flaco, my father.
As if I were in a casket, he contemplates my sleep.
My so-sticky-sweet father
does not wake me with a kiss. Ghosting me
without ...
The Leaking Roof of Time by Yessica Martinez
LAR Online, Poetry
Jerry Xiao, a high-school senior from Collierville, Tennessee, is an alumnus of the Iowa Young Writers' Studio and the Adroit Summer Mentorship Program. His writing has been published in Crab Creek Review, ...
Elegy in an Orchid’s Soil by Jerry Xiao
LAR Online, Poetry
August ends; the world outside dissolves
in warm rain. Dead flies float in pools
of gold, the tang of soap and vinegar rising
sharply in the heat. Aren’t we done with all this yet,
the peaches ...
Blue Hour by Hannah Hirsh
LAR Online, Poetry
In a corps, it matters less whose steps are whose, but still,
.....................a dissonance among them can unravel
the whole of the performance. Tonight, my little ...
For the Pianist on Smoke Break Outside the Grand Rapids Ballet Company by Andrew Collard
LAR Online, Poetry
I do a little dance for myself.
Turn to my husband and shout
It’s beer for dinner tonight, baby!
I have fun with myself.
I pull out the newborn
onesie with the graphic rainbow babe.
The ...
Not Pregnant Again by Whitney Koo
LAR Online, Poetry
John A. Nieves’ poems appear in journals such as: Iowa Review, American Poetry Review, American Literary Review, North American Review, and Southern Review. His first book, Curio, won the ...
Horizon Song by John A. Nieves
LAR Online, Poetry
