

Wind—Mountain—Oak: The Poems of Sappho
Translated by Dan Beachy-Quick
Review by Maxima Kahn
Tupelo Press, June 2023
238 pages / $21.95
Ordering the Cosmos: Review of Wind—Mountain—Oak: The ...
Sappho Translated by Dan Beachy-Quick Review by Maxima Kahn
Book Reviews, LAR Online

I wore a gown
and thanked my dad
who is dead
but would be proud
that I won
enough staring contests
with necktied sociopaths
to buy a house
and fill the tub
with ...
A TV Writer Gets Her Due by Sera Gamble
LAR Online, Poetry

The four-foot plastic Santa lay sideways in the gutter, and Jesus had been ejected from the manger into the snow. The camel, presumably the property of the wise men nearby, rested on a dense row of hedges. Across the ...
The Vandal by Jessie Lovett Allen
Fiction, LAR Online

Via Negativa Translated from the Hungarian by Jozefina Komporaly
This is an extract from the novel Home by Andrea Tompa that will be published by Istros Books in 2024: ...
Extract from Home by Andrea Tompa Translated by Jozefina Komporaly
LAR Online, Translations

Let’s learn the physics
Of ducklings
Their desperate love
The missing data
Only deepens it
This dandelion feeling
Of the eyes
Tears like
Little feet kick
There
Is the ...
Dover Beach by Michael Grinthal
LAR Online, Poetry

Helen’s mother Eleanor is a forcefield. Helen’s mother is a small, pale body swaddled into a hospital bed.
“She no longer recognizes me,” Helen’s brother said on the phone. “This may be your last ...
Confession by Deborah Forbes
Flash Fiction, LAR Online

You Could Make This Place Beautiful by Maggie Smith
Review by Oona Metz
Publisher: Astria/One Signal Publishers
Publication Date: 11 April 2023
ISBN: 1982185856
Pages: 320
Vulnerability, Strength ...
You Could Make This Place Beautiful by Maggie Smith Review by Oona Metz
Book Reviews, LAR Online

a hawk circles the air above me—defying
everything i know of motion—this body
cracks now each morning, night
has its own aches—you’re too
young to feel this way
they say i carry
the weight of ...
case study while running – by Hailey Gross
LAR Online, Poetry

He had become rich by selling the family farm, a famous family farm which everyone had wanted their children to be at. There the pigs and the ponies awkwardly romped and galloped; geese kept moving in ways that made ...