Winner of the 2019 Los Angeles Review Literary Awards, in the category of creative nonfiction.
Final Judge: Adrianne Kalfopoulou
I am a “Redbone.” It refers to a range of skin color that makes people ask, ...
A Redbone’s Reality by Renée Ozburn
Award Winners, LAR Online, Nonfiction
Terror Lullabies
Nude on the hotel plush
I eat red jam from glass jars
warm cream with my fingers.
Genet, I ask
what will I do
with this body.
Monstrous, he murmurs
in the middle of a speech
on ...
Three Poems by Cynthia Cruz
LAR Online, Poetry
Snow again, I can’t hear it falling
in birches, yard, garden beds, heady
tufts and root down of winter carrots,
though I stare out there, as if
listening to the making. The way,
a kid, I’d rise in the middle of ...
The Listening by James Hoch
LAR Online, Poetry
for Bill Evans, 1929 - 1980
The photo gives no year. I guess by hair,
the spotlit sheen on your pomade—you’ve yet
to grow it out. But junk already claims
your veins. See how that mohair suit sags ...
Consecration by Adam Tavel
LAR Online, Poetry
Winner of the 2019 Los Angeles Review Literary Awards, in the category of flash fiction.
Final Judge: Brittany McLaughlin
Netta says Alessandra killed herself. We’re in bed, Lily asleep with her nose buried in my ...
Mexican Shoots Himself in the Chest by Stanley Delgado
Award Winners, Fiction, LAR Online
Hi my name
is Amenhotep
and I’m an alcoholic.
I’m 38.
I’m an American citizen.
I was named
for an obscure brand
of Canadian beer.
I was born with no teeth.
When they arrived
I had a cavity.
I had no ...
There Will Have Been Phosphorescence by Ethan Stebbins
LAR Online, Poetry
Dear Diary,
Today wasn’t such a good idea. Not to seem ungrateful,
not that I’m not breathing in love, breathing out hate,
inhaling trust, exhaling doubt, but when I tried to shimmy
into shoulder ...
Dear Diary by Martha Silano
LAR Online, Poetry
(ఆ)fter my birth, there was a lull, but long
(బి)fore, there was music in the family, in the
(క్)alling of life through the familiar
(డ్)ampness of a mother’s blood offering.
(ఏ)mpty of its ...
An Abecedarian to Mother’s Tongue by Meher Manda
LAR Online, Poetry
Cities with their name
in the distance Prague, the bridge the castle
the time on the clock tower
the clock tower in history
the Jewish cemetery at the corner
Skopje, Istanbul other alphabets
commerce of hours and ...
Three Poems from Lointaines by Nicole Brossard
LAR Online, Translations
