The Neighborhood
Negotiating encounters
of difference, hemmed in
among lungwort
and drone glow,
Doughboy shot
the wrong
cop. Tomorrow’s
dew will be frost
trying to ...
2 poems by Adam Day
LAR Online, Poetry
Interstellar Theme Park: New and Selected Writing
by Jack Skelley
Review by Ben Tripp
BlazeVOX, December 2022
200 pages / $22.00
Jack Skelley's new collection has a menacing glimmer about it, like an ...
Interstellar Theme Park by Jack Skelley: Reviewed by Ben Tripp
Book Reviews, LAR Online
to an open door. You walk up the staircasethat leads to a foggy morning,
and you see your grandfather waiting for youat the top of the stairs, his voice, like the slittingblades of grasses, cuts through your ...
In Your Dreams, Your Body is a Staircase by Ìfẹ́olúwa Àyàndélé
LAR Online, Poetry
I’ve been spending my student loans on records, clothes, and alcohol, and now the money is gone. Not just gone, it’s in negative territory. My checking account is overdrawn. The direct deposit arrived like a ...
Come Finally to Visit by Andreas Trolf
Fiction, LAR Online
squats between a fact, an opinion, a belief, and a judgment,
and the difference between naked and nude is candied
fruit. Lesbians: they fall on you in the middle of the night.
It happens to the best ...
Mercy by Nicole Santalucia
LAR Online, Poetry
We’re too old to catch crawfish with chicken bones and string. And the shore is too crowded for paddle ball. There’s only one raft and Dad says we have to share.
The lake is big, carved into mountains, but ...
Between Water and Sky by Elizabeth Erbeznik
Flash Fiction, LAR Online
Sexing the Chickens
It is difficult to tell whether a baby chick is male or female. Even today, computers can’t do it without human help. An experienced “sexer” divides the chicks, as hens are needed to lay ...
Chickens by Lori J. Williams
LAR Online, Nonfiction
Wind—Mountain—Oak: The Poems of Sappho
Translated by Dan Beachy-Quick
Review by Maxima Kahn
Tupelo Press, June 2023
238 pages / $21.95
Ordering the Cosmos: Review of Wind—Mountain—Oak: The ...
Sappho Translated by Dan Beachy-Quick Review by Maxima Kahn
Book Reviews, LAR Online
I wore a gown
and thanked my dad
who is dead
but would be proud
that I won
enough staring contests
with necktied sociopaths
to buy a house
and fill the tub
with ...
A TV Writer Gets Her Due by Sera Gamble
LAR Online, Poetry
