My earliest, and most indelible, memory of hip-hop’s magnetic pull on my attention dates back to childhood, circa 1983-84 or so, when my brother’s breaking crew, the Royal Rockers, battled for preeminence in the ...
The Search for the Tao in Hip-Hop by Alejandro Nava
LAR Online, Nonfiction
Review of house(hold)
Book by Lindsay Stewart
Published 11/29/22
Eggtooth Editions
Review by Lawrence Di Stefano
The Architecture of Embrace: A review of Lindsay Stewart’s ...
house(hold) by Lindsay Stewart Review by Lawrence Di Stefano
Book Reviews, LAR Online
In the corridor down the street I saw myself and I was another. It’s a long, narrow corridor between the high brick walls of several buildings, which makes for a peaceful walk at night. At the hour when the space is ...
A Walk at Night by Luis Torres
LAR Online, Poetry
CommonplaceBy Hugo García Manríquez
Translated by NAFTA (Whitney Celeste DeVos, Zane Koss, and Gerónimo Sarmiento Cruz)Review by Brent Ameneyro
Publisher: Cardboard House PressISBN: ...
Commonplace by Hugo García Manríquez Review by Brent Ameneyro
Book Reviews, Interviews
Ten thousand streets
Secret boulevards
Narrow as a thread where
Racing children
Too tall to get lost
Pass and brush against one another
Through avenues too frail to
Lie down in
Games of ...
Poems by Simon Johannin Translated by Cory Stockwell
LAR Online, Translations
There are no manta rays like on the brochure, and Divemaster Barry, tall and sitcom-handsome, is not your friend. He pretends to be your friend. He’s very familiar in a performative way. He says you can call him DMB, ...
Bob in the Deep End by Gurth Harper
Fiction, LAR Online
On a recent visit to my parents’ house, I was surprised to pick up an old photo album and find it rife with pictures of my godfather Doc. There was Doc holding me at my baptism, looking like a study in gray—gray ...
Golden Age by Sarah Curtis
LAR Online, Nonfiction
Selfie: Poetry, Social Change & Ecological Connection
By James Sherry
Reviewed by: David Rothenberg
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan 2022
Date Published: October 27, 2022
Length: 347 Pages
ISBN: ...
Selfie by James Sherry Reviewed by David Rothenberg
Book Reviews, LAR Online
Sometimes when I write it feels like I am lifting
here is a little performance about beauty there’s one
about what the owl does to the squirrel’s throat
in the night and now I’ll ...
A Poem by Jennifer K. Sweeney
LAR Online, Poetry
