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water will come again if you can wait for it. —Lucille Clifton, “water sign woman”   Mid-March: You wish for the late-winter rain that Seattle is famed for. You wish for all the water the Pacific Northwest can ...

DESIRE IS AN IAMB by Lauren Fath

LAR Online, Nonfiction

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Selections from Other Paths for Shahrazad (Tupelo Press, 2026). كيف سنكتب عن الحب – الجزء 1 \ فيوليت أو الجلد - لبنان!نحن الذين فقدنا أطرافنا في حروب ...

Arabic Poems in Translation, Part 1

LAR Online, Translations

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    Mag Gabbert is the author of SEX DEPRESSION ANIMALS, which won the Charles B. Wheeler Prize and the Writer’s League of Texas Book Award in Poetry; the chapbook The Breakup, which won the Baltic ...

Two Poems by Mag Gabbert

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In the church in the fields, the original statue of Our Lady of Sonsoles sits near the sacristy. A copy stands at the altar. Legend has it that whenever attempts were made to carry the original from the grounds, it grew ...

Birthday at the Hermitage by Lana Spendl

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Something Rotten by Andrew Lipstein Review by Nicole Yurcaba Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux Publication Date: January 21, 2025 ISBN: 97803746113358 Pages: 340 Andrew Lipstein’s Something Rotten is the ...

Something Rotten by Andrew Lipstein Review by Nicole Yurcaba

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Selections from Other Paths for Shahrazad (Tupelo Press, 2026).كما في الحرب \ إيمان السباعي - مصر هذه الشقة صحر اءتنقطع الكهرباء فتلمع عيون ...

As in War by Iman Alsebaiy Co-Translated by Mohamed Hassan and Jennifer Jean

LAR Online, Translations

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I was terrible at the claw machine. It was why I practiced five times a week for three-hour intervals at nearly fifteen reps per hour. Each rep only cost 1,o00 won, but it was 4,500 for a pack of cigarettes and 2,000 for ...

The Claw Machine by Hyo Jin Ha

Flash Fiction, LAR Online

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Both my grandparents died very young.  My mother thinks it’s because my grandfather would chain smoke in the greenhouse, creating a literal greenhouse effect where my grandmother constantly took in the secondhand ...

Practicing Dying by Rebecca Suzuki

LAR Online, Nonfiction

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Horse Girl Fever by Kevin Maloney  Reviewed by Hally Rae Winters  Publisher: Clash Books Publication Date: January 7, 2025 ISBN: 9781960988362 Pages: 140 Horse Girl Fever is a tight fourteen-story collection by ...

Horse Girl Fever by Kevin Maloney Reviewed by Hally Rae Winters

Book Reviews, LAR Online

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