Wrap It in Silk
........................And give it to the dead—the wound
the doctors can’t repair. Because the ribs
........................are a curve in promise
to ...
Wrap It in Silk by Melissa Studdard
LAR Online, Poetry
THE GIRL HEARS A HAMMERING AT THE DOOR. ARE THOSE COPS, HER MOMMA
SAYS JUST BEFORE THE GIRL MOVES TOWARDS THE SOUND.
Two fists pound, again, just before the girl opens the door.
Two cops tower ...
a Piece by Vanessa Saunders
Fiction, LAR Online
Tiffany Troy: Can you introduce yourself to your readers of the world?
Elizabeth Metzger: I came to poetry even though my family was not really literary. My mother especially was not a poetry reader, but by luck she ...
Becoming My Own Other: A Conversation with Elizabeth Metzger about Her Newest Poetry Chapbook, Bed
Interviews, LAR Online
I can’t really enjoy the trip until I put the car in neutral, once the left front and back tires hook on the track and the sprays of water shoot through the hoses and the rubber flaps slap the car. It's not an ...
Car Wash Bravado by Liz Rose Shulman
LAR Online, Nonfiction
In the hour in the morning just before day, we set fire to the bean field in the middle of rain. The green turned to orange, and then red, & then flames caught the fat bulb of the crocus at the edge of the grave. ...
Same Dream by Ally Young
LAR Online, Poetry
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
