“The toilet is in the bedroom,” I said. “And I’m not talking en suite, I’m talking right there, next to your pillow.”
This was last summer, when I was googling places to rent in Palo Alto for my upcoming ...
Hotel Tennessee by Helena de Bres
LAR Online, Nonfiction
After the pink blossoms surrender & parachute,
Thousands of thumbnail size peaches overpopulate the branches.
I know they will naturally thin with the first harsh rain.
In early July, when the fruit is the size ...
The Beekeeper by Bruce Cohen
LAR Online, Poetry
reviewed by Bruce Spang
Indigo
by Ellen Bass
Copper Canyon Press, April 2020
$18.00, 64pp
ISBN: 978-1556595752
In a recent virtual workshop at Maine Media, Ellen Bass was one of the presenters. Her ...
Review: Indigo by Ellen Bass
Book Reviews, LAR Online
First runner-up in the 2020 Los Angeles Review Literary Awards, in the category of flash fiction.
Final Judge: Ellen Meeropol
Coyote appears.
“We leave tomorrow. Please be ready.”
“And the storm? This ...
El Coyote by Micheal Sarabia
Award Winners, Fiction, LAR Online
No one tries to become a ghost.
But then you wake spectral
in the barrel of an empty shotgun
apartment like an unspent round.
Apart-ment. You lose your self in the erasure
of the city’s map: Independence ...
Unf n shed Bus ness by Benjamin Aleshire
LAR Online, Poetry
Q stepped out of his car and closed the door as a rush of heat filled his lungs. The noxious smell of petroleum dizzied his head. Q listened for oncoming traffic as he passed by a long row of nested shopping carts being ...
Pour by Daniel Verret
Fiction, LAR Online
translated by Meryl Natchez and Karina McCorkle
To Faina, galya, mother, father, grandmother, valya, sveta, and all the others living and dead [1]
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when we lived in Siberia
we were hollowed out
we were ...
Excerpted from “When we lived in Siberia” by Oksana Vasyakina
LAR Online, Translations
First runner-up in the 2020 Los Angeles Review Literary Awards, in the category of nonfiction.
Final Judge: Aimee Liu
Jamel Myles is gone and it has taken me over a year to write about it.
Jamel Myles is gone and ...
Notes Towards an Elegy by Keegan Lawler
Award Winners, LAR Online, Nonfiction
When she’s starving herself
When she lets her bones rise like the wreck of the Frances
at the convergence of minus tides, new moons,
after a winter of superstorms:
When you consider the thumb-sucking ...
Feast by Carla Panciera
LAR Online, Poetry
