Journal Archives 2000-2004 - Texas Review

Fiction
Aaron Gwynn – Courtship
Jack Herzig – Wu Sin (Discovery Story)
J.T. Hill – Rasslin

Essays
Kevin Kerrane – Looking for Jo
Raymond Lankford – The Janus Ram
Ellen Morris Prewitt – The Story Told from the Beginning

Poetry
Betty Adcock – Two Old Confessional Poets Muse over a Recent Journal
Richard Brostoff – Waterfall
James Cleghorn – Realm
Chard deNiord – Gatsby Presents His Case to the Sport of Heaven
Daniel Donaghy – Baby Tunes
James Doyle – Working Blacktop
Kendall Dunkelberg – Chokecherries
Kendall Dunkelberg – Glass Bottles
Sybil Pittman Estess – The Wide Net
Gregory Fraser – Fat
Colette Gill – First Light
Colette Gill – Winter Elegies
B.A. Goodjohn – Losing Color
B.A. Goodjohn – The Saginaw Ladder
Frederick Goodwin – The Butcher Shop
Taylor Graham – Boulder Cutoff
Laura Quinn Guidry – Mother Oaks
Mary Diane Hausman – Smells
Kim Henderson – Rape
Dave Johnson – Cheating
Tim Kahl – La Dolce Vita
Andrew Kozma – The Cremation
Sydney Lea – 1959
Janet Levin – Raised by Relatives
Elline Lipkin – In Paris, in Winter, the Bridges
Elline Lipkin – The Light, in Summer, in Paris
Thomas Luedtke – I Have Been Waiting for Days
Thomas Luedtke – Kapoosta Means Cabbage over Here
Naomi Shihab Lye – Fresh
Naomi Shihab Lye – The Light that Shines on Us Now
Georgianna Orsini – How To Apply for a Job You Are Not Qualified for
Daniel Rifenburgh – Preface to A History of the Pyrrhic Wars
S.E. Rindell – Pulpwood
Michael Salcman – An End to the Anxiety of Influence
Delmore Schwartz – Ode on the Study of Philosophy
Randolph Thomas – Fever
Chris Tusa – Black Mare
Chris Tusa – Photograph of a Missing Girl in a Barbershop Window
Gail White – For a Senior Killed on Prom Night
Joseph P. Wood – Facts

Reviews
Terese Coe – An Alabaster Flask (Jennifer Reeser)
Chuck Etheridge – The Soft Blare (Nick Norwood)
Neila A. Petrick – Tumbleweeds (M.E. Jones and Alice Leese)
Tom Whalen – Double Vision (George Garrett)
Robert Winship – Companions of the Blest (Jim Boyd)

Fiction
Thomas Cobb – Oncology
Lionel Garcia – Rumors: The Curse of the Bad Wife
Tom Whalen – First One Thing, Then Another

Essays
Don Meredith – Looking for Zersura
Lori Peach-Filban – Wilted Daisies
Joan Rudel – His Winter Sleep

Poetry
Seth Abramson – You Set the Scene
Hadara Bar-Nadav – Revision
E.G. Burrows – Pipe-Smoke
Cheryl Derby – Brother
Peter Desy – Hansel and Gretel
Peter Desy – The Pitch
Gary Duehr – Invention
D.R. Goodman – Sestina: The Kickoff
Stephen Gyllenhaal – The Enron in My Face
Albert Haley – Aesthetics
Van Hartmann – Sequins
Lois Beebe Hayna – In Search of Identity
Anne Ward Jamieson – The Begat
Jesse Lee Kercheval – Birthday Gift
Dale M. Kushner – Cinderella
Dale M. Kushner – Magdalene, Beata Diletrix Christi
MaryJo Mahoney – The Splitting Hour
Jill Mancina – Irrelevance of Memoir
Jett McAlister – Ethics of Naming
David McGimpsey – Friday Matinee
David McGimpsey – Opera
Jane Moreland – This Pain
Robert Parham – Things Gathered in Shade
Laurel S. Peterson – Pocketwatch, c. 1905
Kim Rosen – The First Time My Blood Does Not Come
Jamie Ross – Standard Usage
Michael Skau – Lazarus
Adam Sol – In Favor
Matthew J. Spireng – Jackie Robinson
David Starkey – Woodstock
Christina Stoddard – Brigham City, Utah, 1958
Christina Stoddard – In the Making
Virgil Suárez – Mishima in the Garden of Diurnal Delights
Larry D. Thomas – Crow, No. 4

Reviews
Sarah Cortez – 'Sin Puertas Visibles': An Anthology of Contemporary Poetry by Mexican Women (Edited and Translated by Jen Hofer)
Mary Gutermuth – The Fortune Tellers; The Jew of Seville (Victor Sßjour; translated by Norman Shapiro)
Lynn Hoggard – Between the Blast Furnaces and the Dizziness: A Selection of Poems, 1970-1999 (Milo de Angelis, translated with an introduction by Emanuel di Pasquale)
X.J. Kennedy – Collected Poems (Robert Lowell; edited by Frank Bidart and David Gewanter)
Steve Kistulentz – Will@epicqwest.com (Tom Grimes)
Don Melichar – Prairie Nocturne (Ivan Doig)
Phillip Parotti – Surviving the Confederacy: Rebellion, Ruin and Recovery–Roger and Sara Pryor During the Civil War (John C. Waugh)
Cleatus Rattan – Climbing the Divide (Walt McDonald)
Paul Ruffin – That Old Ace in the Hole (Annie Proulx)

Fiction
Christa M. Hill – Con Verde Anoche
Timothy Williams – Leftovers

Essays
Kerry Neville Bakken – Neighborhood Watch
Darren DeFrain – Doctor Doctor
Joy A. Farmer – Suffer, the Little Children: Child Abuse and the Violent Atonement in the Fiction of Flannery O'Connor

Poetry
Debbie Abramson – Notes From The Picasso Museum, Barcelona, 1998
Kathleen Aguero – Medusa
Kathleen Aguero – Cassandra Mama
Andy Archibald – Not Falling, But Floating
Eric Luís Brown – The Dewar's and the Guiness
Sarah Cortez – Happiness
Sherry Craven – Slipping Time
Aaron Crippen – 11:40
William Virgil Davis – Visioned
Daniel Donaghy – The Power of the Keys
Edwin Honig – Just Now I Thought
Brooke Horvath – Purity
Peter Huggins – The Noise of Distant Places
Justin B. Lacour – Late Night in Arkansas
Jared Leising – Pictures Never Taken
Rich Levy – My Airport Dream
Peter McNamara – A poem by Francisco García Lorca Landscape of the Vomiting Multitude
Peter McNamara – Hey, Andy,
Peter McNamara – Into Light
Kimberly Meyer – Hinge
Richard O'Connell – For Men Only
Paul Perry – Longford, the wind
James Pollock – Memorandum
Cleatus Rattan – Variation on a Theme by Frank O'Hara
Jay Rogoff – Horoscope
Thom Schramm – Platonic Seesaw
David R. Slavitt – The Duke of Gornisht-Helfen
Charu Suri – The Ballet Agon
Charu Suri – On The Apollonian Clockwork
Beth Torgerson – What Makes Me Cry Every Time
Ellen Wehle – Mortality
William Wright – Johnfox and Autumn
William Wright – Dreaming of My Parents

Reviews
Linda Byrd-Cook – Remapping Southern Literature: Contemporary Southern Writers and the West (Robert H. Brinkmeyer, Jr.)
Sybil Pittman Estess – Blue Alleys: Prose Poetry and West of the American Dream (Paul Christensen)
Lynn Hoggard – New Selected Poems of Marya Zaturenska (Ed. Robert Phillips)
Lynn Hoggard – The Diaries of Marya Zaturenska, 1938-1944 (Ed. Mary Beth Hinton)
Roger Jones – Early Morning: Remembering My Father, William Stafford (Kim Stafford)
Paul Ruffin – Red Stick Man (Tim Parrish)
William Wright – Sweet Confluence: New and Selected Poems (Susan Ludvigson)

Fiction
Sydney Blair – Honorable Men
Jeb Livingood – Motion Sickness
Alan Sims – An Absence of Witnesses
Eric Miles Williamson – Teachings of Don B.

Essays
Susan Pashman – Fruit
Therese Ragen – Legacy

Poetry
Paul Christensen – City Park Lament
Elinor Phillips Cubbage – The Ballerina
Michael Dumanis – Joseph Cornell, with Box
Sybil Pittman Estess – The Search for Perfect Blue
Sybil Pittman Estess – Out of Africa
Michael Hardin – Susquehanna River, Near Danville, PA
Edwin Honig – Certain Terrors
Jason Huff – Burn
Wayne Allen Jones – The String
Robin Kemp – New Breast
Norbert Krapf – Empty Underground Shelves
Norbert Krapf – A Fruit Tree after the War
Maxine Kumin – Nostalgia on "A Shropshire Lad"
Justin B. Lacour – Sanctuary
Nada Light – Hitler's Barber's Request
Lou Lipsitz – Fishing with my Son on Lake Champlain
Gerard Malanga – Suddently Remembering Robert Lowell
Gerard Malanga – Wystan Holding a Cat, Date Unknown
Walt McDonald – In Winter, after the Rut
Walt McDonald – Twelve's a Long Time for a Dog
David Mason – A Birthday
Robert Mezey – In Texas: Variation on a Theme of Borges'
Naomi Millÿn – Going Crazy
Frederick Morgan – The Shamrock
Jim Muhlig – Said It One Morning
Georgianna Orsini – A Family Gathering Tomato Sandwiches
Paul Perry – The Straw Mannequin
Thomas Reiter – Spring Plowing: Great-Grandfather and the Second Wisconsin Cavalry
Clare Rossini – Afterlives of the Gods: Jove
Jaqueline Shah – Vengeance
Karl Shapiro – Ink! Ink!
Hilary Smith – Motob, Hungry, Writes to Her Husband
Stormy Stipe – Reading
Joni Tevis – Outside Town, a Woman Waiting
Michael Theune – The Subject Turns to Death
Daniel Tobin – Drinking With My Father at Muse's Bar
Ryan G. VanCleave – Zymurgy—n. the branch of applied chemistry dealing with the use of fermentation in brewing etc.
Jan Weiss – Cigarette

Reviews
Elinore Phillips Cubbage – The Breath of Parted Lips: Voices from the Robert Frost Place (Vol. 1 Forward by Donald Hall)
Mary Gutermuth – Lyrics of the French Renaissance (Trans. Norman Shapiro)
Phil Hey – When There Is No Shore (Vivian Shipley)
David Mazella – Selkirk's Island: The Ture and Strange Advetures of the Real Robinson Crusoe (Diana Souhami)
Chad Prevost – Monster Fashion (Jarret Keene)
Dorothy Dodge Robbins – Pleasant Hurricanes (Sim Shattuck)
Jack Smith – Wild Dreams of Reality (Jerry Ratch)

Fiction
Roger Hart – How Coal was Formed
James Conrad McKinley – The Bear
Michael Narducci – Anything You Do in Life
Pamela Ryder – A Comfort in the Stones

Poetry
Brian Barker – Wishbone: An Ode
Artis Bernard – The Searoom
T. Alan Broughton – Catechism
Eric Luís Brown – 'hues of mortality'
Eric Luís Brown – 'the spider'
Sarah Cortez – The Claiming
Sarah Cortez – Harmony Wedding Chapel
Aaron Crippen – After the Crash
B.H. Fairchild – Brazil
B.H. Fairchild – Luck
Jon Fink – Da Jui
Jon Fink – For my Grandmother . . .
Lee Fulton – No Smoke Without Fire
Stephen Gardner – Stalker
Todd Alan Gresley – When Graveyards Held the Canopy of my Youth
Ray Komar – First Lesson
Rich Levy – Daydream
Rich Levy – Domestic Life
Michael Lieberman – Diego's Mural at Museo Hernán Cortés
Michael Lieberman – Portrait
Joanne Lowery – Equine History, 1942
David Luhn – from the Judith Poem #9
David Luhn – from the Judith Poem #21
C.G. Macdonald – Experience Motel
George Manner – Crossing Over
George Manner – End of the Season
Kate Maurer – Catfish
Jacqueline McLean – Bombshell
Frederick Morgan – Barbara
Eric Muirhead – Translation of Nietzche's "To the Mistral"
Patrick J. Murphy – Overseas
Pit Menousek Pinegar – Rising
Jaime Ross – It's This That I Remember
Jaime Ross – Nuestra Señora de la Soledad
M.A. Schaffner – Ages of Gold
Stephen Schroeder – Older Than Mountains
Delmore Schwartz – March 29
Beth Torgerson – The Garden

Essays
Don Meredith – Geography Manifest

Reviews
Mike Alexander – The Borgo of the Holy Ghost (Stephen McLeod)
Sybil Pittman Estess – Amazing Grace (Larry D. Thomas)
Jarrett Keene – Outcasts (Brian Daldorph)
Jarrett Keene – Want (A.J. Rathburn)
Jarrett Keene – Say Hello (Ryan Can Cleave)
Phillip Parotti – Ghost Soldiers (Hampton Sides)
Paul Ruffin – Crazy Quilt (Vivian Shipley)
Jack Smith – Big Bend (Bill Roorbach)
Kandi Tayebi – Romanticism and Women Poets (eds. Harriet Kramer Linkin and Stephen Behrendt)
David Vanderwerken – William Faulkner: The Making of a Modernist (Daniel J. Singal)
David Vanderwerken – Children of the Dark House: Texts and Context in Faulkner (Noel Polk)

Fiction
Barnes Carter – A Man of Wealth and Taste
Michelle Harman – The Firebird
Scott Morris – A Romance

Essays
Robert Fink – Love: An Onlooker's View
George Garrett – A Letter to the Students of the University of Virginia
Michael Mewshaw – James Jones: Paris

Poetry
Debbie Abramson – Dot Com Summer, 2000
Philip Appleman – Gifts
Cynthia Atkins – Goodbye to Winter
Kim Bridgford – The Circus Animals Are Back in Town
Victoria Brockmeier – at most three years
Nancy Naomi Carlson – Awakening to Vivaldi's "Four Seasons"
Mitch Cullin – William Levitt Fortells the Suburbs
Richard Foerster – Home After Months Away
Jennifer Gutiérrez – Chicana
Richard Howard – After Horace: Odes IV, I
Wayne Allen Jones – The Physics of Birds
X.J. Kennedy – The Blessing of the Bikes
X.J. Kennedy – Three Epigrams on Poetry
Julia Ketcham – Poetry
Lynne Knight – Wildflowers
Norbert Krapf – Mississinewa Cottonwood Leaf
Justin B. Lacour – Breaking into Faulkner's House
Michael Lind – Land of the Everlasting Rivers
Michael Lind – The Song of the Nightingale
Jim Peterson – One of Us
James Raines – Witness
Clare Rossini – Eden, the Annual Exhibition
Clare Rossini – Ultrasound
Karl Shapiro – Landscape
David R. Slavitt – The Upas Tree
J.D. Smith – Agenda
J.D. Smith – Arboreal
William Jay Smith – The Battle of Tabu Tabu
Jonathan Stolzenberg – The Lion's Season
Jonathan Stolzenberg – Nasty Weather
Joni Tevis – Miss Texas U.S.A.
Larry D. Thomas – Therapy
Charles Wuest – Elegy for Adam Wuest (1805 - 1897)
James Adam York – At the Line
James Adam York – Iron

Reviews
Brian Barker – Attendant Ghosts (George Looney)
Bruce Mond – After Greece (Christopher Bakken)
Tracy Daugherty – Donald Barthelme: Genesis of a Cool Sound (Helen M. Barthelme)
Fred Erisman – Wild West Shows (Paul Reddin)
Scott Kampneier – Tomorrow Will Be Better: Surviving Nazi Germany (Walter Meyer)
John Kennedy – Pearly Everlasting (Thomas Reiter)
Robert Winship – A Place Apart (Ron Rozelle)

Poetry
Elaine V. Emans – Father and the Lignum Vitae
Allen Hoey – Shaping the Day
Allen Hoey – Wolves at the Burnett Park Zoo
David Berry – Fishing
David Berry – Knee Caps
David Citino – Homage to the Undertaker
Jan Schreiber – Acoustics
Bob Gaskin – From Chagall's Lovers in Venice
Joseph Harris – Edward Hopper's U.S.A.
R.S. Carlson – Shelter Cove
Paul Petrie – The Scavengers
Michael D. Riley – Anglers
George Looney – One Form Love Takes
T. Alan Broughton – Where Home Was
T. Alan Broughton – Minor Earthquake
John Ditsky – Shortages
Ann Townsend – Irish
Ron Rash – Rattlesnake
J.B. Goodenough – Cleaning Out the Fallout Shelter
Michael Larson – My Wife, Teaching Me about Birds
Lucy Shawgo – The River
Jay Treiber – Mule Thief

Fiction
David Slavitt – To My Dying Day
Kit Reid – The Prospective Pessimist
Helen Jones – The First Wife
Lyn Di Iorio – The Other Number

Non-Fiction
Donald Coers – Interview with Chinese Writer Li Rui
Clay Reynolds – Whither the Great American Short Story
Paul H. Lorenz – Epiphany among the Ruins: Etruscan Places in John Fowles's Daniel Martin
Suzanne Kimball – Why Read Literature?

Reviews
Robert S. Hughs – Jackson J. Benson's The Short Novels of John Steinbeck
Fred Chappell – Heather Ross Miller's Hard Evidence
Allen Hoey – Williams Matthews's Blues If You Want
Eleanor Mitchell – Phillip Parotti's Fires in the Sky
Phillip Parotti – Captain William French's Recollections of a Western Rancher
Phillip Parotti – Tim MacCurdy's Caesar of Santa Fe
Phillip Parotti – Ernesto Trejo's Entering a Life

Fiction
Kevin Stewart – Margot

Non-Fiction
Susan Palwick – The Passing of Parents
Sam Pickering – Split Infinitive

Poetry
B.B. Adams – Middle C
William D. Barney – Called Girl
William D. Barney – Home Going
D.C. Berry – Lipstick Juliet
Daniel Blasi – Suspension: 3 A.M., Provincetown
Judith Bloomingdale – The Woman in the Moon
Stephen Cushman – Made on a Monday
Robin Davidson – The Angel of Architecture
Robin Davidson – The Reader
Anthony Deaton – Cicada Song
Andre de Korvin – A Russian Movie
Susan Gubernat – Winter Coats
Rob House – Sense and Sensibility
Peter Huggins – Fingal's Cave
Mary Johnson – To Speak to a Customer Service Representative, Please Stay on the Line
R. Doneley Johnson – Agnus Dei
R. Doneley Johnson – Surge, Illuminare
Charles Martin – Four Poems
David Mason – To an Athlete in Middle Age
Walt McDonald – After Living a Long Time Alone
Chris Partida – Leap Year
Cleatus Rattan – Destination
Jacquelyn Shah – Ode to an Ordinary Joe
Jacquelyn Shah – Paul's Balls
Karl Shapiro – After the Surrender
Julie Sheehan – Thaw
Michael Sofranko – Bad Writing
Rebecca Spears – Marina's Daughter's, 1964

Reviews
Mary Gutermuth – Selected Poems from Les Fleurs Du Mal (Charles Baudelaire; translated by Norman Shapiro)
Jarret Keene – Casualties (Ron Rash)
Robert Koppelman – Cleanth Brooks and Robert Penn Warren: A Literal Correspondence (James A. Grimshaw, Jr.)
Jay Barcley Owens – Western Settings (Red Shuttleworth)
Ralph Wood – The Bible as It Was (James L. Kugel)
Robert Zaller – Ghost Quartet (Richard Burgin)

Special Poetry Issue
M. Alexander – Cornucopia
Andy Archibald – The Bottom Line
Susan Ayres – Dr. Rimmer Talks with the Judge
Christopher Bakken – The Maenad of Perea
Jack. B. Bedell – The Novice
Jenny Boully – A Poem Upon Floods Breaking the Drought
Jenny Boully – The Family Insomniac
Michelle L. Brown – Sorting Grandmother
Michael Bugeja – Curse of the Asian-Indian Advisee on an African-American Feminist
Derick Burleson – Letter to Remera in Rwanda
Derick Burleson – Nyavirezi
Rick Campbell – Again, Vietnam
Darren Daniel Chase – Canday Bilong
Bill Christophersen – Ars Poetica
Robert M. Chute – Rock Tripe
Robert M. Chute – Cats
Michael Cleary – Dirty Jokes
Robert Cooperman – Mrs. Ethel Grayson Sues Her Son for Her Share of His Winning Lottery Ticket
Robert Cooperman – Sonny Grayson Wins the Lottery: Grantville, Ohio
Todd Copeland – Mona Van Duyn
Derek Coyle – Russian Quartet
Phillip Dacey – Thomas Eakins: "The Crucifixion"
Max Eberts – Stigmata
Sybil Pittman Estess – Sarah's Mule
Blas Falconer – A Call from Whitman Walker Clinic
Robert Fink – "Now Thank We All Out God"
William Greenway – My Pills
William Greenway – To My Journal
Stephen Haven – Cello
Stephen Haven – Heritage
Ashley Mace Havird – Decoration
Richard Hollinger – Alexander's victory
Richard Hollinger – The Plague
Jeff Holt – Godot Revisited
Diane Hueter – Childhood in the Drought
Jason Koepp – Standing at a Urinal with an Old Man
Mark Kraushaar – The Message
George Looney – Flying Northwest Over Missouri
Richard Luftig – Driver's Ed.
Richard Luftig – Pawn
Robert Lunday – The Parachutist
Robert Lunday – Reena
C.G. Macdonald – Offspring
Al Maginnes – Believing in Stone
Al Maginnes – Lent
Inman Majors – Driveway Boxing
Michael P. McManus – Texas Inmate 45711
Michael P. McManus – Riding a Horse
Rennie McQuilkin – A Pair of Hoppers
Paul McRay – Pushing Off
Paul McRay – Train Ride North Without My Father
Wayne Miller – Preservation Triptych
Christian Nagle – A Knife Prays
Christian Nagle – Paperweight
Eric Nelson – The Badge
Caley O'Dwyer – Chillicothe
Charlotte F. Otten – Nothing Has Changed
Charlotte F. Otten – Storm in May
Dave Parsons – They
Ben Passikoff – Hobo
Mary Louise Penaz – Court TV
Paul Petrie – The Alterations
Paul Petrie – The Noose
Stephen Phillbrick – Like a Bat
Thomas Reiter – Against Becalmings
Thomas Reitero – A Man Inside a Tree in Nebraska
M. Gavin Schulz – The Unfinished Manuscript
M. Gavin Schulz – Lent
Jan Epton Seale – Fence
Charlie Smith – Originations
Anita Stamper – Old Woman Grinning
Virgil Suarez – Green Jeans
William Wenthe – Poet After Stroke
Richard Wirick – Reading the Notebooks of Renzo Piano
Richard Wirick – The Timber Harp
Marya Zaturenska – Places
Frederick Zydek – The Death of Evelyn James