Mona Kareem is the author of three poetry collections. She is a recipient of a 2021 NEA literary grant, and a fellow at Center for the Humanities at Tufts University. She held fellowships and ...
Prose Poems by Mona Kareem Translated by Sara Elkamel
LAR Online, Translations
Goes by Mark Irwin
Goes the jet laying down its shadow, grazing
rapid ground. Goes the clone undoing species. Goes
the email’s whoosh alone to others. Goes the boy abused to field. Goes
his kite ...
2 Poems by Mark Irwin
LAR Online, Poetry
“It’s the damned lesbians,” your father was telling me. We were sitting at the bar at Castro’s Backroom, the cigar shop on Elm. He’d recently returned from visiting you out west, and I was asking after ...
At Castro’s by Colton Huelle
Flash Fiction, LAR Online
It’s trite to write about the sensation of having a body, how it slices you up the same way a mandoline does, quickly and imperceptibly until you’re standing at the kitchen counter with blood in your coleslaw. ...
Artifact by Silas Jones
LAR Online, Nonfiction
Guest Register
Book by Penny Wolin
Published by Crazy Woman Creek Press
Review by Lawrence Di Stefano
ISBN: 978-0-9676357-4-3
88 pages
“Penny Wolin’s Rooms” A Review of Guest ...
Guest Register by Penny Wolin Review by Lawrence Di Stefano
Book Reviews, LAR Online
Leaf-keep, un-sibyl; if the soul
......Has the weight of a swallow, what less
......Has the weight of a sip?
............-Joyelle McSweeney, “Tea-Strainer”
I tick, lip-quiver, my head hung low and ...
Self-Portrait as Suicide by Isabelle Doyle
LAR Online, Poetry
Split
Down the middle
On the one end
I have Her
The American dream
Her faith on the back burner
On the other end
We have Her
The one who beams
At the thought of god
Who thinks of nothing ...
Blooming Moons: a Poem by Mira Hammoud
Blooming Moons, LAR Online
The perfect Hijabi
Hijabi, a woman who wears the hijab,
Hijabi, a woman frowned upon in this world,
Hijabi, a woman looked down upon by her community.
She tugs at the ends of my hijab, thinking about how she ...
Blooming Moons: 2 Poems by Simra Shadood
Blooming Moons, LAR Online
ornate
[herᆞgrade 5]
“Tomorrow is Eid, so school will be closed. It’s a Muslim holdiay. Is anyone here Muslim?”
silence.
“Anyone? Does anyone know about Eid?”
followed by silence.
“Okay, ...
Blooming Moons: 2 Poems by Aieshah Ashfer
Blooming Moons, LAR Online
