No one had ever heard him speak, so when Hayden Boyd stepped into the tire pit at Ridgemont Middle School and invoked Suicide #5, the boys broke into nervous laughter, shaken by the unexpected depth of his voice and the ...
Hearsay by John Phillips
Flash Fiction, LAR Online
We invited them over, from their fields to ours.
To join us naked and playful, to give them
Hope. To watch us joyfully trample our own lands—
And witness the greening anew overnight.
Our fields. Paid for, no ...
Neighborly by Martha Rhodes
LAR Online, Poetry
The New God
We looked at the map
All those rivers we had crossed
searching for that new god
the priests said
was born for our sake
When we reached his homeland
We found crowds
marching in his funeral ...
Three Poems by Sinan Antoon
LAR Online, Translations
Reviewed by Cynthia Hogue
The State She’s In
by Lesley Wheeler
Tinderbox Editions, 2020
$18.00; 96 pp.
ISBN: 978-1-943981-17-5
Lesley Wheeler’s fifth collection of poetry, The State She’s In ...
Review: The State She’s In by Lesley Wheeler
Book Reviews, LAR Online
Underground for years, cicada-like, it
surfaces, starts the sad, bright sawing:
my story of your story. Something triggers,
un-expectedly. Curly haired kid at the cash
register or the way a woman cups one ...
Should I Listen to the Trees by Jane Poirier Hart
LAR Online, Poetry
When Small Man looks past the glare of spotlights, into the audience, he can see their white teeth gleaming, their smiles ear to ear. He’s thinking about this song he’s playing, this horrible slack key song called ...
What Covers the House is a Roof by Matthew R. K. Haynes
Fiction, LAR Online
Reviewed by Diego Báez
Intergalactic Travels: Poems from a Fugitive Alien
by Alan Pelaez Lopez
The Operating System, February 2020.
$24.00; 122 pp.
ISBN: 9781946031723
One of the first defining features ...
Review: Intergalactic Travels: Poems from a Fugitive Alien by Alan Pelaez Lopez
Book Reviews, LAR Online
Dear Artist,
First, thank you for allowing me to provide feedback on your metal-and-glass sculpture titled “Dining Table ContempoDempo II.” It takes gumption on the part of the artist to allow someone with an eye as ...
Retired Art Critic Brian Sewell Gets Rehired as an IKEA Furniture Quality Control Manager by José Enrique Medina
Flash Fiction, LAR Online
this is what too much heat does to the body:
grandfathers push grocery carts into the ocean
God on board, Vishnu among the vegetables
..........greased-up stars implode in the dailies and
when Venus grows all hot and ...
Paris is for Lovers by Grace Li
LAR Online, Poetry
