

Rodney Gomez is a 2023 NEA Creative Writing Fellow and author of Arsenal with Praise Song (Orison Books, 2021), recipient of the Helen C. Smith Memorial Award from the Texas Institute of Letters. He ...
2 poems by Rodney Gomez
LAR Online, Poetry

We found mold again, this time on the white bread next to the toaster.
“I ate it already,” he said, reaching for the bag I was knotting to trap the spores and toss in the trash.
“We don’t eat mold,” I ...
In Bloom by Anasazi Chavez
Flash Fiction, LAR Online

Heartworm by Adam Scheffler
Review by Angelo Mao
Publisher: Moon City Press
Publication Date: February 6, 2023
ISBN: 0913785601
Pages: 70
The titular object of Heartworm is a dog parasite that ...
Heartworm by Adam Scheffler Review by Angelo Mao
Book Reviews, LAR Online

My son’s pirate robe hangs in the closet
next to my coat. Dusty shoulders silver
the sunlight when I lift the hanger
to breathe him in. In dreams, I close
my eyes to fly over cities he’s ...
Miles by Dara-Lyn Shrager
LAR Online, Poetry

She tapped her finger once at the hollow where the collarbones met.
Here
Here, she says.
The wind and darkness entered through the window of the car’s backseat. Tuberose everywhere. My hand was ...
Here by Arka Bani Maini
Fiction, LAR Online

I am the prickle breeze on the back of your neck. Your peach fuzz neck hair leans west for a breath. You pet your neck and wonder, what was it? The breeze that is me. You swivel your head, searching for an open door, ...
On Not Being Invited and Going Anyway by Anne Gudger
LAR Online, Nonfiction

Frank Dark by Stephen Massimilla
Review by Ruth Danon
Publisher: Barrow Street Press
ISBN: 1736607561
Publication Date: September 28, 2022
Pages: 112 pages
Stephen Massimilla’s brilliant poetry ...
Frank Dark by Stephen Massimilla Review by Ruth Danon
Book Reviews, LAR Online

Mariam Meetra, born in Baghlan, Afghanistan, 1992 and lives in Berlin. She studied journalism and mass communication in Kabul and completed a master’s in social sciences at the Humboldt University ...
Poems by Mariam Meetra Translated by Hajar Hussaini
LAR Online, Translations

Artist StatementIn October of last year I flew home to take care of my mother after she fell off a ladder and shattered her heel bone in thirteen places. While at home, I discovered a cache of Polaroid photographs of my ...