Multiverse
Let us breathe
The air of peace and reason
Inside the office
Outside the bridge
Let us praise
The city’s skyscrapers
Diligent citizens
Absolute rule of ...
3 Poems Translated by May Huang
LAR Online, Translations
Ghost Hour by Laura Cronk
Persea Books
December 2020
Paperback $15.95
ISBN 978-0-89255-519-2
104 pages
The Poetics of Self-Removal in Laura Cronk’s Ghost Hour
In Laura Cronk’s Ghost ...
Ghost Hour Review by Amanda Auerbach
Book Reviews, LAR Online
..............................—for my mother (1923 – 2021)
You never felt as close
to the new shoveled earth as when,
echoed thud on wood still fresh
as the rending of ribbon pinned
over the ...
Translating the Dead by Nancy Naomi Carlson
LAR Online, Poetry
If you passed by a sign twice a day that offered a service where you could anonymously scream away all your pain, fear and loneliness, how long before you tried it?
If Lizzy and Kait charge $3 for screaming in their ...
Ghost Word Problems by Chelsea Stickle
Flash Fiction, LAR Online
Tender the River by Matt W. Miller
Reviewed by Caitlin Cowan
Texas Review Press (April 6, 2021)
ISBN-13 : 978-1-68003-224-6
I Shall Drown Your Books: A Review of Matt W. Miller’s Tender the ...
Tender the River Reviewed by Caitlin Cowan
Book Reviews, LAR Online
Trash
When I walk during the pandemic, I study trash. First day
of school, no children on the street, high school shuttered. I wear
my dead mother’s raincoat. No one likes when I call her my dead ...
Trash by Nicole Cooley
LAR Online, Poetry
“You had an excellent day,” says my boy Kenny. “You didn’t do anything wrong.” Perilous words from the kid who follows me like a joyous five-year-old puppy, underfoot from dawn until dark, inches away from an ...
When I Was Older, I Will Grow Up by Jean Synodinos
Flash Fiction, LAR Online
The Unextinguished Window
By day I see him in the street,
in a dark suit,
razored
combed
wearing a tie—
entire nights his window shines
opposite my window.
Survivor
from ...
Poems Translated by Susan Cohen
LAR Online, Translations
Woman Drinking Absinthe by Katherine E. Young
Alan Squire Publishing, March 2021
$15.99, 71 pages
ISBN: 978-1-942892-24-3
Review by Kristin Kowalski Ferragut
In her poetry ...
