So, Terry is in the middle of the cul-de-sac with a screwdriver in either hand: a Black & Decker and a Grey Goose & Tropicana. He twists his lips at the first sip. Must’ve just brushed his ...
Training Wheels by Yance Wyatt
Flash Fiction, LAR Online
As Long as Trees Take Root in the Earth and Other Poems
Poems by Alain Mabanckou, translated by Nancy Naomi Carlson
Review by Katherine E. Young
Seagull Books, 2021
$19.00
124 pp.
ISBN 978 0 8574 2 877 ...
As Long as Trees Take Root in the Earth and Other Poems Review by Katherine E. Young
Book Reviews, LAR Online
Some night, years after her last winter, you open
both cold eyes in the dark and see
her coats, the green wool and the pea coat
and the navy, the swing-coat and the swagger, piles
of the coats that once wore ...
Elegy with Fourteen Coats by Sally Rosen Kindred
LAR Online, Poetry
To Mokattam at Dawn*
You bathe your rocky ornaments in mists,
.......................let roselight bleed into your cracks.
The Star slowly mounts: his light drenches ...
3 Poems by May Ziadeh translated by Rose DeMaris
LAR Online, Translations
There was no beauty in the scene in front of Edna. She held a baby in her right arm; the left sagged empty with missing weight of a second. A ripe and bitter aura had come alive right when the babies were born; one blue ...
Tandem by Jamie Kahn
Fiction, LAR Online
because blood oaths are overrated, I make mine with anyone:
the cracked cup. the cotton shift. the synchronies of women,
what I set my clocks upon. I dream us in our bedroom hair
and each others’ rouge. I ...
currency by Indrani Sengupta
LAR Online, Poetry
“Cow so evil, so bully, knock your spirit right out yuh chest. Fall on yuh ass and pray to God yuh ain't dead,” Lilith's Uncle Man told her before she left. Her grip on the barrel of clothes had already numbed her ...
Wash Day by Stephanie Mullings
Flash Fiction, LAR Online
Curb
Divya Victor
review by Mandana Chaffa
Nightboat Books, April 2021, 128 pages, $17.95
Divya Victor’s Curb explores immigration, identity, and the boundaries that keep us safe and those that ...
Curb by Divya Victor review by Mandana Chaffa
Book Reviews, LAR Online
On October 30, 1938, Orson Welles read a radio play of
H. G. Wells’s novel, believed by many who heard it to be
a true, live reporting of an invasion from Mars. Some women
were even said to have run out, ...
The War of the Worlds by Sarah Crossland
LAR Online, Poetry
