After the fires south of here but everywhere for life
left in the zone, a hundred-and-forty-five millimetres
of rain fell in about sixty hours and did the impossible — flooded
the side of the ...
On Helen Frankenthaler’s On the Cusp (1985) and the White-faced Heron, Circa… by John Kinsella
LAR Online, Poetry
Every day of the trip it stormed. We were supposed to be learning about the geology of Tampa Bay. Instead, the first afternoon we thirteen waited out the rain under a rubberized tarp. Most of us were young professionals, ...
A Hundred Ways to Die by David Lerner Schwartz
Fiction, LAR Online
Quiet
Quiet is the loudest thing, that's what the old folks say.
Quiet gets you fastening scabbards around your waist.
Quiet shouldn't be denied. And me, I won't deny it.
Quiet augurs much ahead. Protect ...
Translations by Richard Prins
LAR Online, Translations
Everybody Tells You That It's Going to Be Okay
but you remember middle school, that time you told your buddy the same thing. You’d spent the day trading cards. He’d lost one of yours in his cargo short pocket ...
Everybody Tells You That It’s Going to Be Okay by Ian Cappelli
LAR Online, Poetry
A selection of poems from The Animal Is Chemical by Hadara Bar-Nadav
Author’s note: The poems published in the Los Angeles Review are from my manuscript-in-progress The Animal Is Chemical. The central metaphor ...
Poems from The Animal Is Chemical by Hadara Bar-Nadav
LAR Online, Poetry
I thought I had spider bites. The itchy dots on the edge of my shoulder blade popped up the day I found a dead spider crushed on my bedsheet, three eyelash-like legs and the crumpled corpse. The day before I had carried ...
Scratch by Chip Livingston
LAR Online, Nonfiction
Spectacle and the Art of Necessity: A Review of Jessica Q. Stark’s Savage Pageant
Reviewed by Sarah D’Stair
Savage Pageant: Poems by Jessica Q. Stark.
Austin, TX: Birds, LLC, 2020.
116 ...
Savage Pageant: Poems Book Review by Sarah D’Stair
Book Reviews, LAR Online
IT WAS THE latest action in his familial war of attrition: a compact, hilarious, and attractively priced point-of-sale tempter for the festive market. Too busy to read a novel, but too bored to endure ten minutes on ...
The Dire Reader by James Roderick Burns
Flash Fiction, LAR Online
Prognosis
In my end is my beginning.
— T.S. Eliot
My father is all
at once. It is noon and widens
further into another
landscape of feet.
The words he uses are a measure
of the ...
2 Poems by Lauren Camp
LAR Online, Poetry
