Tag Archives: poetry
Lost in Limbo in the Hays County Jail
For 45 painful, lonely days, I waited and waited to be convicted of a crime.
Mel Westfall for the Texas Observer The cold bit through the thin wool blanket and climbed up the short sleeves of my Women of the World Poetry Slam T-shirt as ...Read More
Poem: ‘Resistance’
Within morning’s unsettled light, / students stride out / into the streets......Read More
Poem: ‘Screenplay for a Homemade Movie’
My cousin & his wife married their next-door neighbors. This is as romantic as Pleasanton gets. First each other, then after eight years......Read More
Poem: ‘Whitewashing’
The Observer's August poem: 'Whitewashing,' by Gerard Robledo, a San Antonio poet who works at San Antonio College and the Barrio Writer’s youth program....Read More
Poem: ‘Rice and Beans’
In the Observer's June poem, Patti Radle remembers streetwise preacher Father Lorenzo Rosebaugh, who ate with the people he served....Read More
Poem: ‘I Could Have a Thousand Husbands’
The Observer's May issue poem, about lust and love, is by Shannon Elizabeth Hardwick. Her book, 'Before Isadore,' is forthcoming from Sundress Publications....Read More
Poem: Aleppo Oslo Jos Boston
The Texas Observer's April issue poem, by San Antonian Evan Beaty, explores the connections and chaos between terror and technology....Read More
Poem: ‘Poets And Antidepressants’
The Texas Observer's March issue poem is "Poets and Antidepressants," by Sally McGreevey Hannay, a professor at Schreiner University in Kerrville....Read More