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
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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
Hacer de Tripas Corazón
With lines by Ranier Maria Rilke and Joy Harjo
For beauty is nothing
................but the beginning of terror,
is what you must’ve thought
................when ...
2 Poems by Alexandra Lytton Regalado
LAR Online, Poetry
Dad was a commercial actor, the most handsome dad on the block. The rest were character actors, all a bit shorter, less symmetrical, more comfortable in their extra pounds and ounces. Not Dad, with his taut but not ...
Dad Was an Actor by Kelle Schillaci Clarke
Flash Fiction, LAR Online
The Dictator and the Greeting Cards
by Edmundo Paz Soldán
From the collection Desencuentros
Madrid: Páginas de Espuma, 2018
Translated by Roy Youdale and Nick Caistor
The dictator and the greeting ...
The Dictator and the Greeting Cards by Edmundo Paz Soldán Translated by Roy Youdale and Nick Caistor
LAR Online, Translations
Dona Juanita and the Love of Boys
by Gabrielle Everall
Review by Kiran Bhat
Dona Juanita and the Love of Boys, written by Gabrielle Everall, attempts to take the narrative of the male gaze and feminize it. This is ...
Dona Juanita and the Love of Boys by Gabrielle Everall Review by Kiran Bhat
Book Reviews, LAR Online
Closet I
For better or worse, I welcomed the misreading –
two women holding hands at a bus stop
in this part of the world couldn’t be more
than friends, yet somehow I found the city’s narrow ...
Closet I and II by Sahar Romani
LAR Online, Poetry
