STANZA 37
Accende il fuoco:
la legna dell’estate
scalda la stanza.
Tra le fiamme un ricordo
scintilla sulla mano.
ROOM 37
The fire blazes:
summer wood
heats up the room.
Among the ...
2 poems by Pamela Proietti Translated by Stephen Eric Berry and Donna Mancusi-Ungaro Hart
LAR Online, Translations
The movie is post-apocalyptic. A desolate army outpost sits in the shadow of a giant, rusted-out Ferris Wheel in a barren wasteland.
“No one would ride on that,” my mother leans over and whispers in my ear. ...
Concessions by Elizabeth Stix
Fiction, LAR Online
I was building a bicycle frame out of bamboo when Maya phoned. She said mirrors had shattered on our sons. She said she couldn’t find the boys at first. When she did, they were covered in blood. Her voice was choked, ...
Bamboo and Mirror by Alan Barstow
LAR Online, Nonfiction
Amy
My whole life I’ve had a gay aunt
& never knew it.
So obvious—went to Smith, no kids,
joked to us: “I forgot to get married!”
There was the lore of boyfriend ...
2 Poems by Grant Chemidlin
LAR Online, Poetry
He calls me when he’s fucked up. It can have a cinematic flare, like when he climbed to the top of a hill somewhere out in Arkansas to get phone service, but it’s usually when he’s driving and trying to stay ...
Secret Storm by Sally West
Flash Fiction, LAR Online
I Come With Three Wounds
The funeral parlor in my village opened four years ago. My grandfather showed it to me proudly, finally this town is joining the modern world. We’re through with holding wakes for the dead ...
Excerpt From Llego con tres heridas by Violeta Gil Translated by Kelsi Vanada
LAR Online, Translations
After our mother died, Gemma, my brother’s girlfriend, moved in. Her situation at home was even more fucked than ours, so I agreed to it, though it’s not like I could really refuse. Mostly, I couldn’t hear the two ...
Temporary Organ by Lauren Slaughter
Fiction, LAR Online
The fact of being no longer is how the denotation begins. If you stop there, the word that surfaces is death. The end of being. The end of life, at least as we have known it. But if you continue—the fact of being no ...
The Death of the Firstborn by Julie Marie Wade
LAR Online, Nonfiction
Love Letters to Ukraine from Uyava by Kalpna Singh-Chitnis
Review by Nicole Yurcaba
Publisher: River Paw Press
Publication Date: March 11, 2023
ISBN: 978-1736687147
Pages: 110
When Empathy Bridges ...
Love Letters to Ukraine from Uyava by Kalpna Singh-Chitnis Review by Nicole Yurcaba
Book Reviews, LAR Online
