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
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
