Grace Mathews is a first year MFA student at San Diego State University and an intern forPoetry International. Her poems have been published in print editions of Open Ceilings andRed Wheelbarrow ...
Searching by Grace Mathews
Poetry
Final Judge: M. Soledad Caballero
night prowlers in fellowship by Waqas Khwaja
night prowlers in fellowship by Waqas Khwaja
submerged reefs
submarine canyons and spiked ridges
knobbled full of ...
Los Angeles Review 2023 Poetry Award: Waqas Khwaja
Award Winners, LAR Online, Poetry
To the Woman Dragging Her Son Across Water Street
Tell me what he’s done, and I’ll believe you.
Last week my own daughter
laid down on the floor of a Walgreens,
tried to ...
2 poems by Sarah Carson
LAR Online, Poetry
With Darlings
Alone I am at my very best but I seem always to be followed by darlings
darlings with sharp teeth or darlings with fuzzy bodies or darlings with big
bellies or darlings with wide ...
2 poems by Adele Elise Williams
LAR Online, Poetry
All summer, my son played with a boy
whose mother I never saw, and no one,
not the boy or his brother or his father
writing code on the porch, ever explained;
no one said divorce or ...
Opal by Jane Zwart
LAR Online, Poetry
It was kind of like a peripheral haunting when the snow fountain started to bloom– so many little ghosts popping up just beyond the front picture window, blossoms heavy with frost.
Planted in the shade, ...
The Snow Fountain (The Weeping Cherry) by Carey Salerno
LAR Online, Poetry
Sara Lupita Olivares is the author of Migratory Sound (The University of Arkansas Press), which was selected as winner of the CantoMundo Poetry Prize. Her poems have appeared in The New York Times, Black ...
2 poems by Sara Lupita Olivares
LAR Online, Poetry
My mother found solace in a man who kept sheep.
Sometimes she took me with her to his farm.
Our Chrysler climbed the mountain, my elbow crooked in slow air.
I didn’t know a mountain could be a farm.
On a ...
Periphery by Meg Shevenock
LAR Online, Poetry
Melanie H. Manuel is a Filipina American poet. She currently attends SDSU for her MFA in poetry. She is the Production Editor for PIOnline and teaches Rhetoric and Writing Studies. Her work has been ...
Unearthing by Melanie Manuel
LAR Online, Poetry
