this is what too much heat does to the body:
grandfathers push grocery carts into the ocean
God on board, Vishnu among the vegetables
..........greased-up stars implode in the dailies and
when Venus grows all hot and ...
Paris is for Lovers by Grace Li
LAR Online, Poetry
My father pushes the tips of his fingers to the zippered scar along his sternum. Striking a superman pose, he angles his body side to side. I pause in the hall on the way to my room. “Does it bother you?” I ...
Amnesia Princess as Punchline by Steffi Sin
LAR Online, Nonfiction
translated by Don Boes and Gabriella Bedetti
the one who has eyes
is the one who sees tomorrow
the one who's waiting
is the one who succeeds
which hand is strong
not the one holding the present
but the ...
Three Poems by Henri Meschonnic
LAR Online, Translations
reviewed by Olga Livshin
Letdown
Sonia Greenfield
White Pine Press, March 2020
$17.00; 102 pp.
ISBN: 9781945680359
I first came to Sonia Greenfield's writing after reading her prose poem that begins ...
Review: Letdown by Sonia Greenfield
Book Reviews, LAR Online
An antler taps the glass before the sun comes on
this is how I’ll know it’s November
the deer fog-browsing for something more
a window’s drip a ditch pursing water
I carry myself ungently
from place to place I ...
The Deer House by Sara Michas-Martin
LAR Online, Poetry
Before Mariko went missing, she liked to swim in the open water of the cove, just beyond the tide pools. On days when there was no surf, waves, or wind when sails hung still on catamarans and the sun soaked into the ...
Mariko by Kaylie Saidin
Fiction, LAR Online
reviewed by Jeffery Berg
Daddy
Michael Montlack
NYQ Books, September 2020
$18.95; 88 pp.
ISBN: 978-1630450595
Michael Montlack’s Daddy offers a prism of perspectives through straightforward, pithy, ...
Review: Daddy by Michael Montlack
Book Reviews, LAR Online
Sing in me a dithyramb to salt,
epics of cardamom and sage.
Cypress trees, grow taller please.
Snails, commence your racing.
Let us stoke delicious bonfires
and jig unbridled every night
on the opium sands of ...
Invocation by Christopher Bakken
LAR Online, Poetry
for her sister, a surgeon during this pandemic
I once asked you what it was like to watch people die. We were on our way to drink flights of wine. You described a man’s head filling with fluid until it was the ...
You Work with Death by Maria T. Allocco
LAR Online, Nonfiction
