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Sunday afternoon blizzard on the easternmost pointof North America—early mountain standardmeans my Momma’s at church. I can’t sleep late anymore.Instead I mope, cast hard shadows on blue & purple walls,walls ...

Poisoned by S.A. Leger

LAR Online, Poetry

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There are three groups of people—the living, the dead, and those at sea. -attributed to Anacharsis, c. 6th century B.C. My landlady, Magda, was a ventriloquist. She threw her voice with eerie precision from ...

The Living, The Dead, and Those at Sea by Cary Holladay

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The air tasted sticky, like mold and honey on the backs of our mouths, the day of the neighborhood yard sale. I was seven, or maybe eight, and lonely in the humid Southern summer. We’d hoped a collective yard sale ...

To Have a Body by Alice Martin

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I Done Clicked My Heels Three Times by Taylor Byas Review by J.B. Stone Publication: Soft Skull Press Publication Date: August 22, 2023 ISBN: 9781593767419 Pages: 128 Navigating Black Joy: ...

I Done Clicked My Heels Three Times by Taylor Byas Review by J.B. Stone

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Arnisha Royston is a Pushcart Nominated poet from Los Angeles. Having started in Spoken Word and moved closer toward the written page, Arnisha is drawn to poetry that is intimate and urgent, with ...

3 poems by Arnisha Royston

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In the winter of the second grade, Miss Rudd wrote K-E-V-I-N in giant chalk letters on the board and told us he’d be coming back that day. Miss Rudd had shiny hazel hair that flowed down to her waist; she wore billowy ...

Paper Angels by Donna Obeid

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after K. Iver Start when my grandparents were fifteen. The first time. They stood at an altar. Hand-in-. Hand. They lied. Said they were.  Of age. This time. Their parents don’t ...

Family History Rewrite by Jaz Sufi

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The bronze plaque in the entrance hall shows the year of construction: 1962. And some information about the architect and the co-op. No, this apartment building at the intersection of Essex and Grand, overlooking two ...

A Cheese written and translated by Lotte Brown

LAR Online, Translations

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If Some God Shakes Your House by Jennifer Franklin Review by Gillian Perry Publisher: Four Way Books Publication Date: March 2023 ISBN: 978-1954245488 Pages: 96 A Window, An Open House Jennifer ...

If Some God Shakes Your House by Jennifer Franklin Review by Gillian Perry

Book Reviews, LAR Online

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