after Rick Barot
When any word is called for, say
that I am with. When weeds grow
taller than the grass, that is persistence.
An earthquake swings the house,
that is time’s pendulum. ...
If there be any virtue or any praise by Anna Gasaway
LAR Online, Poetry
At first, the man thought nothing of the brick on the Egyptian Cotton sheets on top of the bed he shared with his wife. It was small and almost innocuous a brick is an odd thing to put in one’s bed, he thought, why ...
The Way They Used to Be by Andrew Bertaina
Fiction, LAR Online
Sunday Song
It’s no use to pick another way,
to decide between this wounded word and a yawn,
to enter the door through which you’ll get lost
or go on like some forgotten thing.
It’s no use ...
Three Poems by María Mercedes Carranza Translated by Jere Paulmeno
LAR Online, Translations
i want a black bob and French fluencylike Anna Karina
i want to look melancholyin a seductive type of way
instead i have Bright Eyes lyricstangled in my hair
and dried bloodaround my ...
Self Portrait as an Anna Karina GIF at 17 by Cloud Delfina Cardona
LAR Online, Poetry
My daughter steps on the ice in my dad’s driveway and it cracks. She sounds like my oma when she says oh, stretched out and blue wide-eyes.
“Mama, watch,” she says.
I tell her to hurry because ...
Time & Sound by Mary Thorson
Flash Fiction, LAR Online
The theme for our junior year English class that week was “man alone.” (It was 1963; the term “man” included women.)
Among other stories, Mr. Quinlan had assigned Leonid Andreyev’s “The Little Angel,” a ...
The Only Child at the Party by Anthony Mohr
LAR Online, Nonfiction
How awkward that nothing significant changes.
My lover lifts my shirt with every kindness
I’ve typically found inconsequential to sex.
The Texas breeze holds its hands in my face, says
Know how to name ...
If You Have a Minute to Spare, Tell Me Everything You Know by Gabrielle Grace Hogan
LAR Online, Poetry
The boys turned nine next week and the nanny asked her if she was solid on the gluten free chocolate cupcakes, or did she think they should get a half dozen of the vanilla ones as well. Her nanny was a small woman, with ...
The Deer by Andrea Harper
Fiction, LAR Online
But Now Am Found by Patricia Horvath
Review by Allison Kornet
Publisher: Black Lawrence Press
Publication Date: February 24, 2023
ISBN: 162557035X
Page Count: 256
At the end of “But Now Am ...
Book by Patricia Horvath Review by Allison Kornet
Book Reviews, LAR Online
