Dave Oliphant

Celebrating Harry’s DreamMay 04, 2007
Collecting the Imagination:The First Fifty Years of the Ransom Center When Harry Ransom founded the Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at [...] Full Story
AfterwordSep 22, 2006
Forty-one years ago, in July 1965, I made my first trip to Chile, as part of an exchange program suggested by Vice President Richard [...] Full Story
Clowning Around with Junk MailMay 19, 2006
Freeze & Thaw 78 pages, $15.00 In his new collection of poems, Freeze & Thaw, Richard Sale refers to himself as having gotten, “with [...] Full Story
A Jazz Master’s Diamond JubileeMar 18, 2005
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Prowling the same old hauntsApr 23, 2004
Filmmaker Alex Rivera says that seeing a 2,000-seat baseball stadium in remote Boquerón, Mexico, made him feel like one of the apes that curiously [...] Full Story

Revisionist jazzSep 12, 2003
Jelly’s Blues: The Life, Music, and Redemption of Jelly Roll Morton Mister Jelly Roll: The Fortunes of Jelly Roll Morton, New Orleans Creole, and [...] Full Story
Book ReviewMay 09, 2003
Giants of Jazz According to Jelly Roll Morton, the great Louisiana-born jazz composer and pianist, it was in 1902 that he composed his seminal [...] Full Story
The Eyes Have ItJan 17, 2003
In 1966 an anthology entitled New Poetry of Mexico appeared with an introduction by Octavio Paz, who would later win the Nobel Prize for [...] Full Story
Poetry ReviewAug 02, 2002
Asunder Last year was a banner year for books by Texas poets. The three titles in the final running for the Texas Institute of [...] Full Story
AfterwordSep 14, 2001
As an inveterate scribbler of verse for over 40 years, I have long followed–without knowing until very late that I was doing so–the injunction [...] Full Story