Before the Airport
The estuary’s flat today blue as
the eyes you’ve turned from me The moments pass
restrained outside the hours whole lives arcing
over us and our torn bloom ...
Three Poems by D.S. Waldman
LAR Online, Poetry
Work: My wife, Sam, converts her in-person African American literature course at the University of Houston into an online one, making decisions about how to do group presentations when the class will not be in the same ...
What We Do in Quarantine By Zach Jacobs
LAR Online, Nonfiction
Review by Bryan Miller
A Beginning at the End
Mike Chen
Mira Books, January 2020.
$26.99; 400pp.
ISBN: 978-0-77830-934-5
Now is exactly the time for Mike Chen’s brand of pandemic novel. Much how his ...
Review: A Beginning at the End by Mike Chen
Book Reviews, LAR Online
for Jon Tribble (1962-2019) and Allison Joseph
“I just had my seismic sense implants removed [from my feet]. I’ve been sensing
earthquakes for the last 7 years … and I’m now feeling phantom ...
Elegy with Aftershocks, Late and Soon by Jennifer Richter
LAR Online, Poetry
translated by Julia Anastasia Pelosi-Thorpe
Aquatic Centre
Stretched on the bed you sometimes see forms,
curves entering and spirals escaping.
Transparent organs up high open out
and become a soft line chasing ...
Aquatic Centre by Maria Borio
LAR Online, Translations
Review by Roy White
Rue
Kathryn Nuernberger
BOA Editions, April 2020.
$17.00, 99 pp.
ISBN: 978-1-942683-97-1
I’ve read that torturers come to like their work and any
of us could, because we don’t ...
Review: Rue by Kathryn Nuernberger
Book Reviews, LAR Online
The Dead Teach Me Grounding Techniques
Put a pebble in your shoe. Slit the deer. Open the gate to the mountains.
The asphalt has begun to pray. Fill the vitrines with moths. Snap a rubber
band around the wrist. ...
Two Poems by Kerri Webster
LAR Online, Poetry
[Stories]
I’m sitting at my kitchen table in a six hundred dollar ergonomic desk chair drinking store-brand cola in a tee shirt I’ve been wearing since last week. I’m writing poems about my sister. In Kunderean ...
Dead Sister by Brian Phillip Whalen
LAR Online, Nonfiction
Review by Stephanie Panozzo
What We Inherit
Jessica Pearce Rotondi
Unnamed Press, April 2020.
$26.00, 264 pp.
ISBN: 978-1-95121-307-7
What prompted me to finally read What We Inherit were wise words from ...
Review: What We Inherit by Jessica Pearce Rotondi
Book Reviews, LAR Online
