Mac had no idea how seriously Richard would fuck him up when he first spotted him from the terrace of the Pescado Rojo in old San Juan. Shit, I would have jumped his ass myself. I was on my fourth mezcal and lime and ...
After Mapplethorpe by Steve Olderman
Flash Fiction, LAR Online
Sara Lupita Olivares is the author of Migratory Sound (The University of Arkansas Press), which was selected as winner of the CantoMundo Poetry Prize. Her poems have appeared in The New York Times, Black ...
2 poems by Sara Lupita Olivares
LAR Online, Poetry
In the Blue Mist
In the blue mist of an abandoned night highway
between the beauty of the Givat Chaim mountains
suffused into a single silhouette against the night sky
and suddenly from the right ...
Three Poems by Abba Kovner translated by Rachel Neve-Midbar
LAR Online, Translations
I fetched a photo of myself from the future and projected it like a hologram onto everything I’ve done and will ever do. The sun rose on my image and I grew even brighter.
Manuscripts, shopping lists, entreaties, ...
Photo From the Future by Caterina Alvarez
Flash Fiction, LAR Online
“Just put it in your bag.”
Saturday afternoon, just after Christmas. Morgan has been dead for twenty days, but his garden apartment in the Chelsea section of Manhattan brims with festivity. Alan, who is the ...
Bequest by Amy Cook
LAR Online, Nonfiction
The thing was, we’d always be all right, as long as we had each other. And we had plenty of that. We had being young. We had being married. We had it all on 50 gorgeous acres of our own estate vineyard, which, as ...
A Simple Murmur from a Dream by Angela Ma
Fiction, LAR Online
My mother found solace in a man who kept sheep.
Sometimes she took me with her to his farm.
Our Chrysler climbed the mountain, my elbow crooked in slow air.
I didn’t know a mountain could be a farm.
On a ...
Periphery by Meg Shevenock
LAR Online, Poetry
Li Qingzhao (1084 - ca. 1155) was a Song dynasty poet and essayist. She is one of the greatest female poets in Chinese history, owing to her home education as well as exposure to the literati of her time. ...
2 Poems by Li Qingzhao Translated by Brandon Toh
LAR Online, Translations
Story & Bone by Deborah Leipziger
Review by Robin Rosen Chang
Publisher: Lily Poetry Review Books
Publication Date: January 10, 2023
ISBN: 1957755105
Pages: 76
Deborah Leipziger's stunning ...