Due to institutional budget cuts as a result of grappling with the changes brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic, we are forced to go on a temporary hiatus. The website will remain active, but we will have no new content for the duration of the magazine’s interlude. We have put [...]

Read the fifth winner of our ALR Flash Flood Contest, Julie Cadman-Kim's "The Art of Losing."

Congratulations and good luck to our nominees for Best New Poets! Sara Ryan, “I Have Found the Golden Whales” Holli Carrell, “The Woman Next Door”

American Literary Review presents Grackles: Two editorial staffers squawk over a film.