Kathleen McGookey’s fourth book, Instructions for My Imposter, is now out from Press 53. Her work has appeared in Copper Nickel, Crazyhorse, December, Field, Glassworks, Miramar, Ploughshares, Prairie ...
How to Disappear by Kathleen McGookey
LAR Online, Poetry
Once Upon a Time,
a fisherman found a dog floating in a box at sea. The fisherman pulled the animal onto the boat and gave it some water and a bologna sandwich. A short time later the fisherman found another ...
A Morsel of Light by Shabnam Piryaei
Flash Fiction, LAR Online
We had nowhere to go, no money, my mother and her second husband had no jobs and no prospects, we had fled cross country after essentially wrecking a house through sheer hillbillyism and had stopped paying on it and had ...
Epiphany No. 3 By Patrick Cole
LAR Online, Nonfiction
Kissing Like There’s No Place Else
I lost my phone, location undisclosed.
It is not dislocation I'm after but being moved
the way a picture was for the very first time.
My first French kiss ...
2 poems by Patrycja Humienik
LAR Online, Poetry
Tell Me About Heaven by Grace Dougherty
Review by Peter Dyer
Publisher: pois é
Publication Date: 15 November 2022
64 Pages
Limited edition
The poems in Grace Dougherty’s debut collection ...
Tell Me About Heaven by Grace Dougherty Review by Peter Dyer
Book Reviews, LAR Online
GENESIS • One hundred years ago, the most fearsome cultural critic in America was Edmund Wilson. Writing in 1931, Wilson noted in an essay that even though the Great Depression ravaged the country, “Americans still ...
Still Unsettled in the Promised Land by Thomas Larson
LAR Online, Nonfiction
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
