Artist Statement
Covid-19 continues to disproportionately impact communities of color everywhere. For so many months, the virus was all I thought about. It infected my thoughts in my fear for my friends ...
Sonnet IX by J. Michael Martinez
Electronic Lit, LAR Online
Artist Statement
I have been drafting variations of this poem for six years, when in a stairwell the poet javier a. lopez asked me about dogs and I replied, I don’t believe in animals. And the longer I ...
Tell Me by Anthony Cody
Electronic Lit, LAR Online
She looks at his body. She hasn’t been near a body like this in a long time.
It’s close enough to 6am, and he’s been lying just so for at least two hours now, face down on the bed, sprawled and ...
Bodies by Chris Connolly
Fiction, LAR Online
Solo
Scorching heat – not so much as a drop
from the sky. All around
the sleep of leaves,
and right in the middle of the day
silence like a knell.
Yet our conversation has begun.
A blade ...
Poems by Mario dell’Arco Translated by Marc Alan Di Martino
LAR Online, Translations
"It's Complicated"
Artist Statement
"It's Complicated" is inspired by a lifetime of considering and debating the issue of Puerto Rico's status in relation to the United States and triggered by the recent ...
It’s Complicated by Leonardo Flores
Electronic Lit, LAR Online
Mamacita gives me the birds and the bees over bloomin onions off the 710. Mamacita asks the waitress to play Los Smiths, she wants Moz. The waitress smiles and nods and smiles wider. Mamacita says you need to learn this ...
Mamacita by Alexandria Juarez
Flash Fiction, LAR Online
Visiting Her in Queens Is More Enlightening than a Month in a Monastery in TibetBy Michael Mark
Publisher: RattleISBN: 978-1-931307-21-2Published: August 2022Pages: 40Review and Interview by Brent ...
Book by Michael Mark Review and Interview by Brent Ameneyro
Book Reviews, Interviews, LAR Online
August
The vacation rental was a few miles outside Healdsburg. The road to it—at first open, corrugated with grapevines—crested over a rise, and sank into a bowl overgrown with dead grass and bone-dry oaks. At ...
Airborne by Ryan McFadden
LAR Online, Nonfiction
“Mar y virus / Virus and the Sea”
Artist Statement
“Mar y virus / Virus and the Sea” is an “oleatory” poem in the time of COVID-19 -“oleatory” coming from the Spanish “ola,” ...
Mar y virus / Virus and the Sea by Tina Escaja
Electronic Lit, LAR Online
