It’s a field trip day, and there they are, a hundred or so of them. Maybe fourth grade, maybe fifth, sixth. They heave with unrestrained laughter, silent from this side of the glass. They swat each other’s groins. A ...
The End of Track by Nicholas Maistros
Fiction, LAR Online
I will weep for the stranger as human,
for the kinship that’s closer than kin.
Alexander Shchedrinskiy,Odessa, Ukraine
If the language of your childhood is used to justify bloodshed and destruction, ...
Kinship Closer Than Kin: Translating Russian-language Poetry of Witness by Yana Kane
LAR Online, Nonfiction
Melanie H. Manuel is a Filipina American poet. She currently attends SDSU for her MFA in poetry. She is the Production Editor for PIOnline and teaches Rhetoric and Writing Studies. Her work has been ...
Unearthing by Melanie Manuel
LAR Online, Poetry
Eloise took little bites from the rind of a lemon wedge, spit the bitter yellow pulp into her palm and held it up. “Amma, amma, mamma.”
“Where did you get this? Not good for digestion.” The ...
Catastrophes by C. Bellettini
Flash Fiction, LAR Online
Thine by Kate Partridge
Review by Cory Hutchinson-Reuss
Publisher: Tupelo Press
Publication Date: June 7, 2023
ISBN: 1961209004
Pages: 90
Moving (within the) Frame: A Review of Thine by Kate ...
Thine by Kate Partridge Review by Cory Hutchinson-Reuss
Book Reviews, LAR Online
Monk poet Guan-xiu (832-912AD) was a renowned Chan (Zen) Buddhist hermit, wanderer, and artist of many disciplines at a turmoil time of Medieval China. Like many Chan monks before him, he ...
Poems by Guan-xiu Translated by Xiaoqiu Qiu
LAR Online, Translations
Dana Chiueh is a poet, programmer and journalist. She was a Levinthal Scholar and co-director of the Spoken Word Collective.
11 December ...
2 Poems by Dana Chiueh
LAR Online, Poetry
Today, when the doctors come into the exam room, they find me a leper.
Symptom #1: I have a rash running down the inside of my right leg. “It looks like pizza,” I say. “And it hurts.” I describe the ...
The Standardized Patient by Joanna Petrone
Fiction, LAR Online
I didn't pick this fight – I wanted to be an astronaut. Cardboard and duct tape spacesuit, star maps clipped from Odyssey Magazine, exhaustive knowledge of NASA mission names and numbers – I had it all figured out. ...