translated by Emma Ferguson
THREE STEPS BELOW,
is the shadow that guides
the light
the deformed feet,
their contrast
through the corridors
of the house.
Hands enveloped
by candles,
a foothold of sticks
in ...
Four Poems by Esther Ramón
LAR Online, Translations
History is not a great tree. It’s more
like a bush, I think, or maybe
a sponge, soaking up and periodically
wringing out. Wow, a tree would mean
you could get to the top, to the upper
branches that would ...
History is Not a Great Tree by Fleda Brown
LAR Online, Poetry
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
