An Alpine Lake Under a Birdless Sky
.............................You’re tired of summer.
.............................You want to stop all the singing.
.............................And everything is ...
2 Poems by Jordan Escobar
LAR Online, Poetry
The sun is red today, and I don’t know what to say to you. I am staring at this red sun cutting through the smudged clouds, buckling under the decision to say everything or nothing. I imagine you at the kitchen sink, ...
A Crack in the Woods by Sarah Brokamp
Flash Fiction, LAR Online
Slick Like Dark by Meg Wade
Review by Erica Charis-Molling
As a lesbian who came out in the evangelical church, I resonated with Meg Wade’s book Slick Like Dark from its first few pages. Though coming from a ...
Slick Like Dark by Meg Wade Review by Erica Charis-Molling
Book Reviews, LAR Online
Air Raid by Polina Barskova
Translated by Valzhyna Mort
Review by Marina Kraiskaya
ISBN: 978-1-946433-70-1
Trade Paperback
Smyth-sewn. 160 pp, 5.25 x 8.25 in
Publication Date: October 01 2021
Eastern European Poets Series ...
Air Raid Book Review by Marina Kraiskaya
Book Reviews, LAR Online
chiaroscuro
It’s still alive — the curling end of all
the smoking fumes. It twirls between my ribs,
those narrow cogs, and fits across the tall
and broken pieces of the clock. My ...
2 Poems by McKenna Themm
LAR Online, Poetry
The first time I ever saw a heart was on our kitchen floor. Mother was dissecting a chicken on the tiles. It was the time of war and the best you could get from the meat market was a fully plucked chicken with the head ...
My Mother’s Heart by Mehr-Afarin Kohan
Fiction, LAR Online
I only had one appointment and it wasn’t until the afternoon. Leaving the flat in the early morning I walked deliberately away from the Place de la Republique, the sore focus of the night before. I joined some men ...
Men in Doorways by William McNamara
LAR Online, Nonfiction
Four Poems by Korean Women Poets from the 16th-19th Centuries Translated by Suphil Lee Park
Chang-Ahm Jeong
By Choo-Hyang
We row to the blue estuary
Stun birds awake into flight
Mountain marked ...
4 Poems Translated by Suphil Lee Park
LAR Online, Translations
Nocturne
The coyotes create an auditory fence | two rowdy boys sound like a pack and some beings are happy | tonight. What scent do they catch? | Their howls echo | echo — yowls | this is their territory. It must have ...
2 Poems by Suzanne Frischkorn
LAR Online, Poetry
