When Albert Einstein’s brain was stolen from his freshly dead body and carried by car across the country, my father was seventeen, living in Abilene, TX, with his parents and three siblings. They were very poor, and at ...
Truce by Melissa Cundieff
LAR Online, Nonfiction
His eyes were always tearful; he wept sweet life away, in longing to go back home,
.......................since she no longer pleased him.
..............................................—Book 5, The Odyssey, ...
Calypso Keeps What She Finds by Sonia Greenfield
LAR Online, Poetry
I’m in Sanitation now. Used to work in daytime TV advertising, so I suppose you think that’s fitting. Production to cleanup, but it’s still dealing in crap, right?
It’s not your garden-variety, toilet-bowl ...
The Department of Sanitation by Kelly Harding
Flash Fiction, LAR Online
Glimpses of Poe
by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa (1892-1927)
Translated from the Japanese by Ryan Choi
“Poe” refers to “Edgar Allan Poe.” When Poe was first introduced to France by the poet Charles ...
Glimpses of Poe by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa Translated from the Japanese by Ryan Choi
LAR Online, Translations
Breaking with (and through) the Page: Narrating Womxn’s Untold Stories Through Erasure in Jennifer Sperry Steinorth’s Her Read: A Graphic Poem
Review by Shannon K. Winston
Texas Review Press, 2021
248 ...
Jennifer Sperry Steinorth’s Her Read: A Graphic Poem Reviewed by Shannon K. Winston
Book Reviews, LAR Online
In the near-dark of the suburban street lights
coming on, my father sits hunched in his garage,
refletching an arrow clamped on the workbench
he built. The carbon-black shaft of the arrow
is ...
Elegy with Arrows by William Fargason
LAR Online, Poetry
I was at Tricky Rick’s house after school because my mom had a PTA meeting. While Tricky Rick’s mom took a bath, we poked around her closet and found a big box from Girl Scout cookies that didn’t hold Girl Scout ...
Tricky Rick by Michael Czyzniejewski
Fiction, LAR Online
Born a Man
It’s so much work, she must confess,
grappling with the sloth of her spouse,
cleaning his home, handling his mess!
(Let’s imagine it, if we can.)
He is useless and fatuous,
yet remains the ...
2 Poems by Adela Zamudio Translated by Laura Nagle
LAR Online, Translations
1
After a mob of MAGA insurrectionists stormed the US Capitol building in the final days of the Trump presidency, former Capitol Police Chief Kim Dine told The Washington Post the scene was “like watching a real-life ...
Les Actualités by Susanna Space
LAR Online, Nonfiction
