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LAR 24 is out today!✨

Our newest anthology includes 2020’s “best of” poetry, translation, fiction, creative nonfiction, and book reviews as well as 2020 LAR Awards winners.

We’re so excited to finally share this with you!

Get your copy of LAR 24 here:
https://t.co/PtyMp8ByWb

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Letizia Mariani reviews Elizabeth Metzger’s “The Going is Forever” (@milkweededitions) and L.A. Johnson interviews Metzger in a new #LARinterviews x #LARreviews joint offering.

Check it out here: https://t.co/Jr77VQvt0y

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“Summer: to live among
the roses for a few days;
to breathe the air around
their blossoming souls.

To make each that dies
one’s confidante,
and outlive”

Richard Becker’s translations of poems by Rainer Marie Rilke are up on LAR today!
https://t.co/PtqhuWoKSO

#LARintranslation

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“Am I supposed / to be offering help to someone right now? Am I supposed / to be building an edifice? Why say “hope”? How about / “energy drink”?”

John Gallaher from “Things That Were Better Than We Thought & Things That Were Worse”
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#LARpoetry

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✏️✨ Our 2025 LAR Award Winners Week is closing out with Jennifer Lewis’ “Laugh Your Beak Off”—our 2025 flash fiction winner!

Read Lewis’ piece here: https://t.co/cb7SyjAEqK

#LARLitAwards

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✏️✨Our 2025 #LARLitAwards winning short fiction piece, Priyanka Kumra’s “When the Metal Prays,” is up on the site today!

Read it here: https://t.co/hWHPVVwNld

#LARLitAwards

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✏️✨ Maria B. Olujic’s 2025 LAR Award winning #LARnonfiction piece, “Between Gravity and Grace,” is up on the site today!

Read it here: https://t.co/QcnTvYgvwS

#LARLitAwards

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✏️✨ It’s #LARpoetry Day in our 2025 LAR Award Winners Week!

Regina O’Melveny’s “Garden of Ash,” chosen by our #LARpoetry judge, is up on LAR!

Read it here: https://t.co/atjVBv7Xa9

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✏️✨Our 2025 LAR Award winning pieces go live starting tomorrow!

Look out for Regina O’Melveny’s “Garden of Ash” (poetry), Maria B. Olujic’s “Between Gravity and Grace” (cnf), Priyanka Kumra’s “When the Metal Prays” (short fic), and Jennifer Lewis’ “Laugh Your Beak Off” (flash)!

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K.A. Vallere reviews Diana Cao’s “Slipstream” (pub. @tupelopress) on LAR today!

Read the full review here: https://t.co/PzfjfYGYk0

#LARreviews

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Anna Bentley’s translation of an excerpt from Andrea Tompa’s “Excellent Bodies” (Kiváló testek) is now up on LAR!

Read it here: https://t.co/AindQIpqxy

#LARintranslation

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“Everything in Lubbock wants in—the wind, the grit, the longing that has nowhere to go”

Taylor Light from “Lubbock Lung”
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#LARpoetry

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“Her eyes looked past him into a future he couldn’t see, just like the beautiful woman’s at the bottom of the lake.”

Dorian Elizabeth Knapp from “The Promise”
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#LARfiction

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“Is this what love looks like at the smallest scale—duty mistaken for tenderness?”

“Path Integration” by Allison Cross is now up on LAR! Read it here: https://t.co/BT5vo6CrKs

#LARnonfiction

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“I’m scared, Father. Beautiful things— / they scare me. // Like the smell of incense that fills an empty mourning house, / hard to shake off—”

Susan K’s translations of poems by Park Soran are up on LAR today! Read them here: https://t.co/tO2D9qxSCq

#LARintranslation

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“I’m generally not a screamer, but this was a haunted occasion, as evidenced by the leader’s minimal reaction to my maximum one.”

Dinah Cox from “Pastoral”
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#LARflash

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H.L. Hix reviews David Breskin’s “Timestamp” (pub. Canisy Press) on LAR today!

Read the full review here: https://t.co/7Z7p6fy6zS

#LARreviews

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“I wondered if I would / be there / asleep in the privilege of slumber”

Janice Lobo Sapigao from “When My Auntie Asks If I Think a Baby Will Make Things Better Between Us”
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#LARpoetry

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“and there it was: the heavy exaggerated exhale. It was resignation confirmed and emphasized, bad news always expected, and always internalized.”

Elizabeth Weinstein from “COMEDY”
https://t.co/aT6pL4bsHq

#LARfiction

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“Sometimes, when I was a child, his eyes appeared so large and wet that I could see clear-through to another animal within him, one that was helpless and in need of something it could not articulate.”

Garth Robinson from “Animal Planet”
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#LARnonfiction

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“I yearned for an immediate, violent mishap, an indefinitely postponed hunger, and a halt to the indefinite postponement of my death.”

Michael Day’s translation of Yang Hao’s short story “Shuangshuang” is now up on LAR! Read it here: https://t.co/TA8RdkxWhj

#LARintranslation