Yaccaira Salvatierra’s poems have appeared or are forthcoming in POETRY Magazine, The Nation, Huizache, and Rattle among others. Her collection, Sons of Salt, is forthcoming with BOA Editions in 2024. ...
2 Poems by Yaccaira Salvatierra
LAR Online, Poetry
after Rick Barot
When any word is called for, say
that I am with. When weeds grow
taller than the grass, that is persistence.
An earthquake swings the house,
that is time’s pendulum. ...
If there be any virtue or any praise by Anna Gasaway
LAR Online, Poetry
i want a black bob and French fluencylike Anna Karina
i want to look melancholyin a seductive type of way
instead i have Bright Eyes lyricstangled in my hair
and dried bloodaround my ...
Self Portrait as an Anna Karina GIF at 17 by Cloud Delfina Cardona
LAR Online, Poetry
How awkward that nothing significant changes.
My lover lifts my shirt with every kindness
I’ve typically found inconsequential to sex.
The Texas breeze holds its hands in my face, says
Know how to name ...
If You Have a Minute to Spare, Tell Me Everything You Know by Gabrielle Grace Hogan
LAR Online, Poetry
Kathleen McGookey’s fourth book, Instructions for My Imposter, is now out from Press 53. Her work has appeared in Copper Nickel, Crazyhorse, December, Field, Glassworks, Miramar, Ploughshares, Prairie ...
How to Disappear by Kathleen McGookey
LAR Online, Poetry
Kissing Like There’s No Place Else
I lost my phone, location undisclosed.
It is not dislocation I'm after but being moved
the way a picture was for the very first time.
My first French kiss ...
2 poems by Patrycja Humienik
LAR Online, Poetry
Artist Statement
Covid-19 continues to disproportionately impact communities of color everywhere. For so many months, the virus was all I thought about. It infected my thoughts in my fear for my friends ...
Sonnet IX by J. Michael Martinez
Electronic Lit, LAR Online
Artist Statement
I have been drafting variations of this poem for six years, when in a stairwell the poet javier a. lopez asked me about dogs and I replied, I don’t believe in animals. And the longer I ...
Tell Me by Anthony Cody
Electronic Lit, LAR Online
"It's Complicated"
Artist Statement
"It's Complicated" is inspired by a lifetime of considering and debating the issue of Puerto Rico's status in relation to the United States and triggered by the recent ...
It’s Complicated by Leonardo Flores
Electronic Lit, LAR Online
