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
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Expect a Delay by Austin Gilmore
Flash Fiction, LAR Online
We in this house know our place. We never pry, ask unnecessary questions or poke our noses into our boss’s affairs. Occasionally, however, we admit, we gossip. Of course, we keep an eagle eye on anyone new who joins ...
Mary the Mchawi by Farah Ahamed
Fiction, LAR Online
They’re driving up the pacific coast on the 101. Dad tuned up the Bel Air and it’s humming, along the highway, the Beach Boys singing those good, good, good vibrations, the sun nearing the horizon. Mom is sitting ...
Trailer Park Ocean by Josh Price
Flash Fiction, LAR Online
