for Eavan Boland
If I could cast you in bronze,
I wouldn’t—
not even so you might stand forever
in this city of monuments,
not even to add a particular woman
—not goddess, not nation—
to this ...
On Merrion Street by Nan Cohen
LAR Online, Poetry
McDonald’s always reminds me of Dodger Baseball; the yellow arches the first pit stop, the sign that we were on our way to a ball game. My brother and cousin would pick their pickles off their hamburgers and I would ...
Dear Mike Piazza by Rachael Jordan
LAR Online, Nonfiction
translated by Emma Ferguson
THREE STEPS BELOW,
is the shadow that guides
the light
the deformed feet,
their contrast
through the corridors
of the house.
Hands enveloped
by candles,
a foothold of sticks
in ...
Four Poems by Esther Ramón
LAR Online, Translations
History is not a great tree. It’s more
like a bush, I think, or maybe
a sponge, soaking up and periodically
wringing out. Wow, a tree would mean
you could get to the top, to the upper
branches that would ...
History is Not a Great Tree by Fleda Brown
LAR Online, Poetry
When Shelby put that ring on my finger, it was so cheap the ends didn’t meet. He’s all, honey, why you crying? That’s when I started lying. Once I got on that path, weren’t no choice but to walk it. I told him, ...
Try Saying Yes by Kristen Millares Young
Fiction, LAR Online
Review by Tim Lantz
My Mountain Country
Poems by Ye Lijun, translated by Fiona Sze-Lorrain
World Poetry Books, August 2019
$16.00, 208 pp.
ISBN: 978-0-9992613-4-7
My Mountain Country, Ye Lijun’s ...
Review: My Mountain Country, Poems by Ye Lijun
Book Reviews, LAR Online
this is more than
sick. police and
the planet and your
mind so new
to it. purple hand
towel under the hair
dryer. radios. you
show them
your plastic
firetruck; where
the ladder
broke playing
rescue ...
brother— by em fowler
LAR Online, Poetry
translated by Carlie Hoffman
Crystal
All is still. A flock of fallen leaves,
golden brown, soak in sunlight.
Chalky clouds hang from the cobalt sky.
Frost-jeweled flowers.
Crisp, green pine—the ...
Four Poems by Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger
LAR Online, Translations
Review by Kate Carmody
Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
Cathy Park Hong
One World, February 2020.
$27.00; 224 pp.
ISBN: 978-1984820365
In Minor Feelings, poet and essayist Cathy Park Hong ...
Review: Minor Feelings by Cathy Park Hong
Book Reviews, LAR Online
