Wedding Rice by Joshua Levy
Many lines in this story are lyrics from the song "Pigeons," written by Bill Callahan, (C) 2020 Your/My Music (BMI), from the album Gold Record. The lyrics are highlighted in ...
2022 Short Fiction Award Winner: Joshua Levy
Award Winners, LAR Online
Ode to My Brother, My Dealer, and Instacart Workers in 2020
There are things this year I learned
I would unlearn without pause, like that
I want a woman to shop for my groceries,
her ...
2022 Poetry Award Winner: Haylee Millikan
Award Winners, LAR Online
One Friday evening, Uncle Jim beat Aunt Linda bloody and knocked out her front teeth during an argument that started when she accidentally bumped her leg against the kitchen table and spilled some of his whiskey. ...
Closed Door Blues by Alec Kissoondyal
Fiction, LAR Online
My earliest, and most indelible, memory of hip-hop’s magnetic pull on my attention dates back to childhood, circa 1983-84 or so, when my brother’s breaking crew, the Royal Rockers, battled for preeminence in the ...
The Search for the Tao in Hip-Hop by Alejandro Nava
LAR Online, Nonfiction
Review of house(hold)
Book by Lindsay Stewart
Published 11/29/22
Eggtooth Editions
Review by Lawrence Di Stefano
The Architecture of Embrace: A review of Lindsay Stewart’s ...
house(hold) by Lindsay Stewart Review by Lawrence Di Stefano
Book Reviews, LAR Online
In the corridor down the street I saw myself and I was another. It’s a long, narrow corridor between the high brick walls of several buildings, which makes for a peaceful walk at night. At the hour when the space is ...
A Walk at Night by Luis Torres
LAR Online, Poetry
CommonplaceBy Hugo García Manríquez
Translated by NAFTA (Whitney Celeste DeVos, Zane Koss, and Gerónimo Sarmiento Cruz)Review by Brent Ameneyro
Publisher: Cardboard House PressISBN: ...
Commonplace by Hugo García Manríquez Review by Brent Ameneyro
Book Reviews, Interviews
Ten thousand streets
Secret boulevards
Narrow as a thread where
Racing children
Too tall to get lost
Pass and brush against one another
Through avenues too frail to
Lie down in
Games of ...
Poems by Simon Johannin Translated by Cory Stockwell
LAR Online, Translations
There are no manta rays like on the brochure, and Divemaster Barry, tall and sitcom-handsome, is not your friend. He pretends to be your friend. He’s very familiar in a performative way. He says you can call him DMB, ...
Bob in the Deep End by Gurth Harper
Fiction, LAR Online
