First runner-up in the 2018 Los Angeles Review Literary Awards, in the category of Poetry.
Final Judge: Douglas Manuel
Silver flowers—a blindman’s word,
give the blossom, not bullets—
of sugarcane rustled ...
This Is About Time by Naoko Fujimoto
Award Winners, LAR Online, Poetry
Selma June had come to town. In Lindburg, Kansas, that was as good as it was ever going to get. They held the lecture in the public library, where I had been shelving and reshelving books for sixteen years. And there, ...
We are not lemons by Chelsey Grasso
Fiction, LAR Online
One Night, Just before Rain
I remember the small distances, the way we would hold them
like a cricket in our hands, how the darkness would turn
that distance into a throbbing song, something like the blood
rushing ...
Three Poems by John A. Nieves
LAR Online, Poetry
Reviewed by Shannon K. Winston
The Accidental
poems by Gina Franco
The University of Arkansas Press, October 2019.
$16.95; 88 pp.
ISBN: 978-1682261057
Gina Franco’s The Accidental is stunning, deft, ...
Review: The Accidental by Gina Franco
Book Reviews, LAR Online
A being, who was pulled out of my body nine years ago,
is building a city of stone, stick, and tangled blue string
on top of what looks like a broken cage.
Scabs and mosquito bites speckle his legs and an elbow
and ...
Lines Written on Jasper Beach, Machiasport, Maine by K.A. Hays
LAR Online, Poetry
First runner-up in the 2019 Los Angeles Review Literary Awards, in the category of Short Fiction.
Final Judge: tammy lynne stoner
James labors on top of her. Teeth gritted, brow furrowed: this sort of grim ...
The Killing Jar by Jennifer Hritz
Award Winners, Fiction, LAR Online
The four of you circle your father’s bed. Each sibling reaches to touch his face, a hand, an arm, a leg. To the side, the hospice nurse monitors his vital signs. His breath comes quick, and then, seems to cease ...
Round and Round by Hilary Schaper
LAR Online, Nonfiction
Wherever the earth is crag and scrub,
the goats are there1, nibbling on the new,
needing hooved others, and, last of all
refusing the slip on the scree
into the heap of the lonely,
the noisy, and the talked ...
Tragedy by Paula Stacey & Lindsay Stewart
LAR Online, Poetry
First runner-up in the 2019 Los Angeles Review Literary Awards, in the category of Creative Nonfiction.
Final Judge: Adrianne Kalfopoulou
Crack.
Fuck, fuck, fuck.
Pop.
I’m in an oven, ready for roasting. ...
7 lbs., 8 oz by Stephanie Wobby
Award Winners, LAR Online, Nonfiction
