

Paradise Is Jagged by Ann Fisher-Wirth
Review by Anders Carlson-Wee
Publisher: Terrapin Books
Publication Date: February 1, 2023
ISBN: 1947896601
Pages: 116
A Hopeful Quarrel
In vivifying ...
Paradise Is Jagged by Ann Fisher-Wirth Review by Anders Carlson-Wee
Book Reviews, LAR Online

August ends; the world outside dissolves
in warm rain. Dead flies float in pools
of gold, the tang of soap and vinegar rising
sharply in the heat. Aren’t we done with all this yet,
the peaches ...
Blue Hour by Hannah Hirsh
LAR Online, Poetry

You are an orange tree a woman planted many years ago. But first, before that, you are only a tiny seed she lays softly into the cradle of earth and loam she dug for you in her own backyard. While you sleep dormant, she ...
The Orange Tree by Danielle Sherman
Flash Fiction, LAR Online

The Longest Race by Kara Goucher and Mary Pilon
Review by Michael Lee Palmer
Publisher: Gallery Books /an Imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc.
Publication Date: March 14, 2023
ISBN: ...
The Longest Race by Kara Goucher and Mary Pilon Review by Michael Lee Palmer
Book Reviews, LAR Online

It Was Untimely
Translated Story
Time is a locked chest. Once the chest is opened, it is impossible to keep the time inside.
A baby was born in a village. The chest opened, and time slowly seeped ...
Short Story by Esra Kahya translated by Aysel K. Basci
LAR Online, Translations

In a corps, it matters less whose steps are whose, but still,
.....................a dissonance among them can unravel
the whole of the performance. Tonight, my little ...
For the Pianist on Smoke Break Outside the Grand Rapids Ballet Company by Andrew Collard
LAR Online, Poetry

It started and then it couldn’t be stopped, them calling you Prof, though every now and then you’d be summoned Beth by the ones who seemed older than the rest, more secure in the democracy of learning, more prone to ...
Syllabus by Beth Kephart
LAR Online, Nonfiction

Little Astronaut by J. Hope Stein
Review by Shannon Nakai
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
Publication Date: September 20, 2022
ISBN: 1524872202
Pages: 96
In 1979, Medbh McGuckian won the ...
Little Astronaut by J. Hope Stein Review by Shannon Nakai
Book Reviews, LAR Online

I do a little dance for myself.
Turn to my husband and shout
It’s beer for dinner tonight, baby!
I have fun with myself.
I pull out the newborn
onesie with the graphic rainbow babe.
The ...