History of Forgetfulness by Shahe Mankerian
Review by Alan Semerdjian
Publisher: Fly on the Wall Poetry (October 22, 2021)
Paperback: 86 pages
ISBN: 1913211622
The Memory Singing: Shahe ...
History of Forgetfulness by Shahe Mankerian Review by Alan Semerdjian
Book Reviews, LAR Online
Kissing Like There’s No Place Else
I lost my phone, location undisclosed.
It is not dislocation I'm after but being moved
the way a picture was for the very first time.
My first French kiss ...
2 poems by Patrycja Humienik
LAR Online, Poetry
Tell Me About Heaven by Grace Dougherty
Review by Peter Dyer
Publisher: pois é
Publication Date: 15 November 2022
64 Pages
Limited edition
The poems in Grace Dougherty’s debut collection ...
Tell Me About Heaven by Grace Dougherty Review by Peter Dyer
Book Reviews, LAR Online
GENESIS • One hundred years ago, the most fearsome cultural critic in America was Edmund Wilson. Writing in 1931, Wilson noted in an essay that even though the Great Depression ravaged the country, “Americans still ...
Still Unsettled in the Promised Land by Thomas Larson
LAR Online, Nonfiction
Artist Statement
Covid-19 continues to disproportionately impact communities of color everywhere. For so many months, the virus was all I thought about. It infected my thoughts in my fear for my friends ...
Sonnet IX by J. Michael Martinez
Electronic Lit, LAR Online
Artist Statement
I have been drafting variations of this poem for six years, when in a stairwell the poet javier a. lopez asked me about dogs and I replied, I don’t believe in animals. And the longer I ...
Tell Me by Anthony Cody
Electronic Lit, LAR Online
She looks at his body. She hasn’t been near a body like this in a long time.
It’s close enough to 6am, and he’s been lying just so for at least two hours now, face down on the bed, sprawled and ...
Bodies by Chris Connolly
Fiction, LAR Online
Solo
Scorching heat – not so much as a drop
from the sky. All around
the sleep of leaves,
and right in the middle of the day
silence like a knell.
Yet our conversation has begun.
A blade ...
Poems by Mario dell’Arco Translated by Marc Alan Di Martino
LAR Online, Translations
"It's Complicated"
Artist Statement
"It's Complicated" is inspired by a lifetime of considering and debating the issue of Puerto Rico's status in relation to the United States and triggered by the recent ...
It’s Complicated by Leonardo Flores
Electronic Lit, LAR Online
Mamacita gives me the birds and the bees over bloomin onions off the 710. Mamacita asks the waitress to play Los Smiths, she wants Moz. The waitress smiles and nods and smiles wider. Mamacita says you need to learn this ...
Mamacita by Alexandria Juarez
Flash Fiction, LAR Online