Just ten days old, he should still be swaddled
in the amniotic waters of my womb.
Today is our first time to hold and be held.
While the nurse unbundles him from his cocoon,
he wiggles and yawns as ...
Kangaroo Care by Amy Fleury
LAR Online, Poetry
The day I was expected at Missy Cadwell’s, a woman across town left her screen door open and got mauled to death in her own living room.
Domesticated, Missy always said about the bears, overly domesticated.
I ...
To Stop the Head from Running Wild by Kieran Mundy
Fiction, LAR Online
The poet hovered like Christ on a raging sea. The applause thanked him for his honest timbre, his story and blood.
A trail of tears began gathering underneath the claps somewhere in the balcony, on the far ...
The Ovation by Morgan Mann Willis
LAR Online, Nonfiction
Paul van Ostaijen: Village, 1928
.......................a version
In the night, a bat
your breath
doesn’t depend on the breath of another
and you know this place
the people, house to house, at ...
A poem by Paul van Ostaijen translated by Joshua Weiner
LAR Online, Translations
An Alpine Lake Under a Birdless Sky
.............................You’re tired of summer.
.............................You want to stop all the singing.
.............................And everything is ...
2 Poems by Jordan Escobar
LAR Online, Poetry
The sun is red today, and I don’t know what to say to you. I am staring at this red sun cutting through the smudged clouds, buckling under the decision to say everything or nothing. I imagine you at the kitchen sink, ...
A Crack in the Woods by Sarah Brokamp
Flash Fiction, LAR Online
Slick Like Dark by Meg Wade
Review by Erica Charis-Molling
As a lesbian who came out in the evangelical church, I resonated with Meg Wade’s book Slick Like Dark from its first few pages. Though coming from a ...
Slick Like Dark by Meg Wade Review by Erica Charis-Molling
Book Reviews, LAR Online
Air Raid by Polina Barskova
Translated by Valzhyna Mort
Review by Marina Kraiskaya
ISBN: 978-1-946433-70-1
Trade Paperback
Smyth-sewn. 160 pp, 5.25 x 8.25 in
Publication Date: October 01 2021
Eastern European Poets Series ...
Air Raid Book Review by Marina Kraiskaya
Book Reviews, LAR Online
chiaroscuro
It’s still alive — the curling end of all
the smoking fumes. It twirls between my ribs,
those narrow cogs, and fits across the tall
and broken pieces of the clock. My ...
2 Poems by McKenna Themm
LAR Online, Poetry
