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
I want to be like thoseWho worship the sacred sunOur children catch its rays through rifle sightsSeconds before becoming lightSo beautiful, the morningSo divine, they sayBut daybreak bleeds through bullet holesEach ...
When the Sun Becomes Shrapnel by Ahmad Ibsais
LAR Online, Poetry
Mag Gabbert is the author of SEX DEPRESSION ANIMALS, which won the Charles B. Wheeler Prize and the Writer’s League of Texas Book Award in Poetry; the chapbook The Breakup, which won the Baltic ...
Two Poems by Mag Gabbert
LAR Online, Poetry
The scab of the earth is a wide museum.I roam around in gigantic clothes,Striving to be unrecognizable.To give consequence to the peril of my inner world.I’m becoming a circle forever to fit you here.A closed system, ...
Strip Mall by Haley Joy Harris
LAR Online, Poetry
