2009-2005

Fiction
Madison Smartt Bell - An excerpt from Devil's Dream
Richard Burgin - Clean Souls
John Michael Cummings - Unmasked
Jason Grunebaum - Major Nixon
Stephen March - Trophies

Essays
Rodney S. Edgecombe - The Twentieth-Century Suite Poem: Its Mophology and Evolution
Stephen Faulkner - On Silence
Don Meredith - Field of Flowers: The Immolation of Giordano Bruno
Robert Phillips - Memories of Wilia

Poetry
Stephen Gardner - Desire
Stephen Gardner - Dream Hunting
Stephen Gardner - Evolutionary
Stephen Gardner - Fetish
Becky Gould Gibson - After Ilium
Becky Gould Gibson - Picnic in the Underworld
Becky Gould Gibson - Poison Ivy
Susan Kinsolving - L'Oeil de Verre
Susan Kinsolving - Picture This
Jack Ledbetter - A Man and a Woman and a Dog with Pups
Jack Ledbetter - Night (Southern Illinois)
J.R. LeMasster - Letter to the Poet Billy Collins
J.R. LeMasster - Two Women Walking
Kathleen M. McCann - The Hallway
James B. Nicola - Hostel Hopping
C.L. O'Dell - Then
Dave Parsons - I Would Give You the Single Strawberry
Dave Parsons - Evening After Eating Rainbows
Simon Perchik - G27
Simon Perchik - G179
Philip St. Clair - Concert
Melissa Stein - Revolving
Christine R. Waldeyer - The Man at the Gate of the Garden of Eden

Reviews
George Drew - Jackson B. Bedell and Darrell Borque's Call and Response
Caleb Powell - David Shield's Reality Hunger: A Manifesto
Jack Smith - Dennis Must's Oh, Don't Ask Why

Fiction
Brian Allen Carr – Short Bus
Mary Kuykendall-Weber – Paw Paw
Marc Watkins – The Well
Judy Wilson – Sliver

Essays
Sam Pickering – End of Summers
Noel Polk – Even Mississippi Legending in Barry Hannah's Bats Out of Hell
Eric Miles Williamson – Selected Essays from Say It Hot

Poetry
Peter Cooley – To My Immortal Soul
Jack Crocker – Treed
James Doyle – The Neat Farmer
Myron Ernst – Creosote
Stephen Gardner – At the Brink of the Century
Stephen Gardner – Crosshairs
Stephen Gardner – Fetish
Becky Gould Gibson – At the Passion of the Christ with Saint Augustine
Becky Gould Gibson – Xanthippe's Fruits and Vegetables
Keagan LeJeune – Household Goods
George Looney – Songs of Lost and Remembered Water
Missy-Marie Montgomery – Aubade
Missy-Marie Montgomery – Italy
Patricia Colleen Murphey – Cave Creek
W. Dale Nelson – Images
Pauline T. Newton – De Grazia's Flower
Lynne Potts – Asleep n the Chelsea Hotel Sonnet
Mark Sanders – Villanelle: Men at Fifty-One
Georgia Syribeys – On My Mother's Photograph Framed in Gold Ivy
Georgie Syribeys – The Sea
Georgie Syribeys – Urban Eclogue

Reviews
Diane Lockward – Tom C. Hunley's Octopus
Genevieve Kaplin – Caroline Cox's Quaker Guns
Anis Shivani – Robert B. Shaw's Blank Verse. A Guide to Its History and Use

Fiction
John Michael Cummings – Un Jour J'aimerai
Don Meredith – Enemy in the Room
Phong Nguyen – Pages from The Textbook of Alternative History: Ho Chi Minh in Harlem

Essays
D.C. Berry – From A Week on the Chunky and Chickasawhay
Anis Shivani – New Rules for Writing Fiction

Poetry
Jack B. Bedell – Django Reinhardt at La Cigole
Jack B. Bedell – The Geese on Hwy. 16
Jack B. Bedell – Saturday Night Crab Boils
D.C. Berry – GQ's Man of the Year
D.C. Berry – Toenails Compel Philosophy
D.C. Berry – Sugar Shoppe Forcast Love Today
Jack Crocker – Blotter
Jack Crocker – Lifting Weights
Jack Crocker – Namesake
Jack Crocker – September on Copper Ridge
Jack Crocker – When Language Fails Emotion
Kendall Duckelberg – Day of the Dead
Kendall Duckelberg – Eye of the Storm
Kendall Duckelberg – November Wind
Rebecca Foust – Archeological Record
Rebecca Foust – Once Was a River
Rebecca Foust – Perennial
Rebecca Foust – Raystown River Trout
Roger Jones – The Bee Tree
Roger Jones – A Church in Shiner, Texas
Roger Jones – Dry Hole
Roger Jones – Hale-Bopp Spring
Lyn Lifshin – April 29, 2002
Lyn Lifshin – Feather's Cushioning Barbaro's Hooves
Lyn Lifshin – His Mysterious Eyes
Lyn Lifshin – On a Day It Seemed the Planets and Stars Chose
Lyn Lifshin – On the Day of the Longest Night
Lyn Lifshin – No Wonder Some Grooms Spent a Little More Time with Him
Jack Myers – Cirrus
Jack Myers – Golden Watch
Jack Myers – Riding Shotgun in my Life
Jack Myers – There's Nothing in my Hands
Jack Myers – This
Dave Parsons – Knuckleball
Dave Parsons – Losing Sight
Dave Parsons – Wolf Attack: Western Art in a Cloudcroft Café
Larry Thomas – Jesús Concepción
Larry Thomas – Psyche
Larry Thomas – Those Who Live by the Sea
William Wright – Chernobyl Half-life
William Wright – The Curers of Folly
William Wright – The Eaves
William Wright – Hypothetical Bloom
William Wright – Night Field Anecdote

Reviews
Sean Bernard – M. Glenn Taylor's The Ballad of Trenchmouth Taggart
A.J. Ortega – Dagoberto Gilb's The Flowers

Fiction
Joy Castro – Liking It Rough
Willy Montana – Oil Wells and Silver Perch
Chris Offutt – Back Porch
Jack Smith – The Urgent Duck
George Williams – Minnehaha

Essays
D.C. Berry – From The Rooster Chronicles
Rodney Stenning Edgecombe – Annie Proulx's That Old Ace in the Hole: The Novel as Compendium
Paul Ruffin – Interview with Larry D. Thomas, 2008 Texas Poet Laureate

Poetry
Mark Belair – Grief
Richard N. Bentley – Each Petal Is Perfect
Peter Cooley – To My Immortal Soul
Jack Crocker – The Bald Spot
Jack Crocker – Jump Shot
Jack Crocker – Lascaux Artist
Jack Crocker – Narcissus Falls in Love
Jack Crocker – Three Love Stories
Amy Cummings – Bukowski
James Deahl – Old Song
Farrell Dyde – Too Early Face
Richard Foerster – Divas
Richard Foerster – The View
Tom C. Hunley – Ecstacy
Naomi Ruth Lowinsky – Mae West Is What They Call Your Hills
Don Meredith – Kikuyu Grass
Jim Murphey – Stag Hollywoodland
Larry D. Thomas – Chessman
Larry D. Thomas – Hot Pink, Day-Glo Chartreuse, and Electric Blue
Larry D. Thomas – The Hours
Larry D. Thomas – Tempera
Larry D. Thomas – The Miners
Adam Vines – The Motel Room

Reviews
Donna Acquaviva – John Michael Cumming's The Night I Freed John Brown
Janet McCann – Sybil Pittman Estes' Labyrinth
Phillip Parotti – John C. Waugh's One Man Great Enough
Jack Smith – Joe Benevento's My Puerto Rican Past

Fiction
Charles Baxter – There Will Come a Day When Sacred Ilion Shall Perish (1864)
Kathy Flann – Profile of the Addict
W.P. Osborn – Rope
Nicholas Rinaldi – Twisting Shadows and Shades of Gray

Essays
Casey Clabough – The Primary Story: George Garrett's Initiation Fiction

Poetry
Maureen Alsop – Holy Holy
Al Basile – Fishing With Sock
Al Basile – Tipping the Scales
Stephen C. Behrendt – Beggars
Alan Berecka – The Theology of Dodge Ball
Denise Bergman – Oz Again
Allan Douglass Coleman – Speaking to You, Mother, Now
Robert Cooperman – Cute
Barbara Crooker – Janis
Barbara Crooker – Line
James Doyle – At the Water Tower
Tom Dvorske – "Little Girl in Pink with Goblet with Stawberries: A Portrait"
Timothy Fox – Buddha Transplant
Gregory Fraser – Beliye Nochi, St. Peterburg
Danielle Hanson – To You, Beautiful Old Woman
Peter Harris – The Master Asks, "How Does On Become Enlightened?"
Ava Leavell Haymon – How Melchior Decided on Myrhh
Jean Hollander – Counterpoint
Anne Ward Jamieson – On Reading Tat Each Apple Has Five Seeds
James Davis May – Untitled Drawing, 1987
Missy-Marie Montgomery – Aubade
Annabelle Moseley – Allegory of a Library
Elisabeth Murawski – The Jogger
Christian Nagle – Translationof Chuya Nakahara's "Homecoming"
Christian Nagle – Translationof Chuya Nakahara's "The Moment of Death"
Fred Ostrander – The Box
Fred Ostrander – The Fish
Kathleen O'Toole – Trust
Pit Menousek Pinegar – Preservation
Pamela Porter – Abandoned Hospital for the Insane
Rush Rankin – Air Power
Jamie Ross – Cell Phone. Father. Assisted Care
Jamie Ross – I Open His Book
Richie Smith – Cremation of a Memory
Richard Spilman – Fish Tale
Richard Spilman – Impromptu on Time
Judith Strasser – A Realist Confronts Spring Shaggy Manes (Caprinus Comatus)
T.N. Turner – Yarrow, Like Capitalism
Brandi Willis – Art
Charles Wyatt – My Youngest Son and I Bury Our Old Cat
Fred Yannantuono – Bridge Jumping
Fredrick Zydek – Going to the Old City Zoo

Fiction
John Waddy Bullion – Who Goes With Ferg?
Tracy Daugherty – The Inhalatorium
David Galef – At The Paradise Club
Ken Holland – Hey, Rooster

Essays
Brooke Hovarth – Why Joyce Kilmer Is Not Allen Ginsberg
Robert Phillips – A Rare Friendship
Sam Pickering – Looking Good

Poetry
Douglas Basford – Ash, Red, Ash
Robert Brickhouse – Days at the Store
T. Alan Broughton – Wreckage
Janet Cannon – Day Laborers
Michael Cleary – The Prodigal Son's Brother
Nick Conrad – The Tale of Our Leaving
Kevin Cutrer – Butcher
Steve De France – Pecos, Texas: 1961
Kendall Dunkelberg – Goldenrod
Myron Ernst – On Marcel Prous and Time Wasted
Erica Miriam Fabri – The Smallest Bird on Earth
Erica Miriam Fabri – The Third Miscarriage of Marilyn Monroe
Clifford Paul Fetters – Roustabouts
Robert A. Fink – And Having Found
Robert A. Fink – What We Do in the Poetry Workshop
Carolyn Tourney Florek – Cardinal Mother
Beth Gylys – For My Father
Beth Gylys – What Drives Us
Patrick Hicks – Footprints on the Moon
Scott Hightower – Mercy
Swep Lovitt – London
Ed Madden – Rock Collection
Pauline T. Newton – De Grazia's Flower
Paulann Petersen – Snake-Handler
Paulann Petersen – Storytime
Deseree Probasco – Dandelion
J. Stephen Rhodes – Dead Again
Margie McCreless Roe – The Black Dresses
Mary Jane Ryals – They Showed Me the Creek
John Savoie – Weed
Marcus Smith – Direct Presentation
Marcus Smith – Invisible Man
Georgia Syribeys – The Sea
Nathan Whiting – The Gull Forgets the World
Nathan Whiting – The Last View of Dorsey's Gallery on Roger's Ave.

Fiction
L. Baines & Gregory Stanley – Corpus Christi
Patrick Lindsey Bowles – In Texas
Andrew Geyer – Lesser Mountains
Brandon Reynolds – Buried Treaure
Jack Smith – Bloodsport

Non-Fiction
Don Meredith – Extravagant Silences: A Memoir
Jane P. Moreland – The History of Dogs
Robert Pope – Green's History

Poetry
Claudia Burbank – Holding Pattern
Christopher Carr – Christine
John Randolph Carter – I Think of Cary Grant
R.T. Castleberry – Silence as Well
Michael Cirelli – On Turning 30
Jim Daniels – Petrified
Thomas Dukes – Odella at Eighty
Janet Flora – Missing
Jeff Grinnell – At The Paradise, 1985
Marc Elihu Hofstadter – Baths
David L. Hyde – Confessions of a Lonely Soldier
Naton Leslie – Visiting Jim Beam
Naton Leslie – Emma Stays in the House
Lenore Mayhew – Night Song
Ann McGovern – Aftermath
Ann McGovern – The Yellow Leaf
Robert Parham – Gaining Ground
Robert Parham – Seeing Beyond the First Field
Francis Schenkkan – To Be a Cowboy
Peter Serchuk – Hot Rod
Linda Swanberg – The Lilac's Dream
Larry D. Thomas – Tree Stump
Sonny Williams – Brute Beauty
Arnie Yasinski – Paradise Was a Real Place

Reviews
Larry D. Thomas – Hard Country (Paul Christensen)
Daniel Sellers – Contrabando: Confessions of a Drug Smuggler (Don Henry Ford, Jr.)

Fiction
Marlin Barton – Beneath A Dark Window
Jonathan Cannon – The Auction
Marie Mutsuki Mockett – Mean Something To Me
Ross Taylor – Revolution Blues: A Tale of the Seventies

Essays
Laurie Champion – Step Right Up
Don Meredith – The Painter and the Thief

Poetry
Jeffrey Alfier – Last Words to my Daughter Transporting a Foal
Carl Auerbach – To a Son Lost to Madness
Gay Baines – Raking Leaves
Eileen Berry – Infinite Blue
Judith Cody – Ward
Kendall Dunkelberg – Time Capsules
Kendall Dunkelberg – Alalia
Kendall Dunkelberg – Native Prairie
Myron Ernst – On Looking for the Church of San Fransisco de Asis
Jon Fink – For the Sisters of Charity Orphanage
Jon Fink – The Lost Child
Charles Freeland – Wan Study
Jonathan Harrington – Alba
Jonathan Harrington – Jockey's Lament
Michael L. Johnson – Elvis in Las Vegas
Kenneth O'Keefe – An Innocent Deterred
Julie King – Cooking for the In-Laws
Mary Julia Klimenko – Dogs in the Night
Stephen Malin – The Spring
Erika Mikkalo – Candy
Aimee Parkison – Ashes to Ashes
Dave Parsons – Speechless
Paulann Petersen – According to DNA
Peter S. Poland – Salam and Bamberg
Daniel Polikoff – Saint Francis Preaches to the Birds
Daniel Rifenburgh – Wild Turkeys at Paisano
David Salner – When I Was A Thing
Ralph Tyler – Young/Old Man
Charles Webb – Student of Applause
Don Young – O'Keeffe in Taos
Jill Wright – Confession

Reviews
Paul Christensen – Blue, Candled in January Sun (Sybil Estess)
Sybil Estess – Radiance (Barbara Crooker), Pascal Goes to the Races, & Emily's Dress (Janet McCann)
Iris Rozencwajg – The Sleep Accusations (Randall Watson)
Bonny Barry Sanders – Hardboot: Poems New and Old (Vivian Shipley)
Daniel Sellers – Contrabando: Confessions of a Drug Smuggling Cowboy (Don Henry Ford, Jr.)
Larry Thomas – Hard Country (Paul Christensen)
Robert Zaller – Identity Club: New and Selected Stories (Richard Burgin)

Fiction
Gary Fincke – The Promises of Labels
Louis Gallo – No Second Troy
Lisa Gschwandtner – Josie, In Dreams & a Day
Peter Hixson – Only The Wind
Carolyn Osborn – The Zannies
Tom Whalen – The No Blues Man

Essays
Chris Gavaler – Paperback
Paul A. Trout – "How Countless Your Sins:" Anti-American Rhetoric and the Prophetic Tradition

Poetry
Sybil P. Estess – Texas Memorial
Sybil P. Estess – Library Sestina
Richard Foerster – Passover
Stephen Haven – Cutting the Tree
Ted Kooser – Smoke Rings
Steve Orlen – Among the Arts
Stephen Philbrick – As the Waves
Jeremy Robinson – A Good Season for Poetry
J. Allyn Rosser – 213th Angel to Be Sighted by a Poet
Larry Rubin – Given: Life Is Not Linear
Tony Sanders – Window Washing After Dark VIII & IX
Ethan Stebbins – The Day the Metaphor Began
Susan Tenaglia – The Lawn Chair Man
Jim Tilley – Pencil Sketches for Ms. Stone
Robert Tinajero – Hope
Jerry Williams – Poem for My Godson

Reviews
Andrew Geyer – Nevin's History (Jim Sanderson)
Roger Jones – Danger on Peaks (Gary Snyder)
Phillip Parotti – 20 Good Reasons to Study the Civil War (John C. Waugh)
Daniel Rifenburgh – Maps of the Imagination: The Writer as Cartographer (Peter Turchi)
Paul Ruffin – Disgrace to the Profession (Gretchen Kauffman and Charles Newton)

Fiction
Philip Gould – Café Lafayette
William Harrison – Money Whipped
Don Meredith – The Greatcoat
Michael Smith – Dos Mujeres
Steve Yates – Hunter, Seeker

Essays
Calder Willingham – How To Write Novels and Screenplays

Poetry
Dick Allen – Shareware
Wendy Baker – Old Anniversary
Jay Bridges – Henry James at Graceland
Michael Cleary – Boss's Son
Chad Davidson – On the Just and the Unjust
Chris Dunn – Mass
Ben Greer – Rhapsody
Michael Hardin – Man Rising
Stephen Haven – Hawthorn
Tony Hoagland – The Story of the Story of My Marriage
Julie King – Ghazal for Jasper, Texas
Ted Kooser – The Unread Books
Norbert Krapf – The Hay Baler
Jared Leising – Pictures Never Taken
Lou Lipsitz – Captured by the Poem
Thomas Luedtke – Earring
Al Maginnes – The Varieties of Silence
James Magorian – The Knife Thrower's Assistant
Anne McGrady – Vicarious
Peter McNamara – Rejection Slip
Wayne Miller – Translation of Moikom Zeqo's "The Mermaid
Wayne Miller – Translation of Moikom Zeqo's "Trouble"
Kevin Pilkington – Afterlife
Jim Richards – Reflection from My Future
Jamie Ross – Fan Blade
Ethan Stebbins – Portraits of the Artist
Monique Stevens – Four Haiku
Ron Thomas – Underneath
Alexandria Wilder – Making Friends at the Circus
Gary Charles Wilkins – Boy's Haircut Seen at a Street Party
Gary Charles Wilkins – Brother John in the High Corn

Reviews
Andrew Geyer – Where Skulls Speak Wind (Larry D. Thomas)
Barcley Owens – Wolf Tracks on the Welcome Mat (Paul Zarzyski)
Paul Ruffin – Tales from Kentucky Lawyers (William Lynwood Montell)
Robert Winship – Parade of Days (James Freeman)