Tag Archives: Texas poetry
Poetry: Politics Aside
I love Carie Juettner’s understated twist of observational loveliness in this tiny poem. When people in other states ask, as they frequently do, “Why do you...Read More
The Observer Review: The Calculus of Falling Bodies, by Geoff Rips
The Calculus of Falling Bodies is wonderfully freighted—as it should be; this slim volume is a gathering of almost four decades of poems by someone who has de...Read More
Review: Letter Composed During a Lull in the Fighting — Poems by Kevin Powers
The experience of reading Kevin Powers’ new poetry collection, Letter Composed During a Lull in the Fighting, is much like combat itself—long periods of cal...Read More
Poems Old and New from Texas Poet Laureate Rosemary Catacalos
2013 Texas Poet Laureate Rosemary Catacalos, a longtime San Antonio resident of Mexican and Greek heritage, makes frequent use of the Ariadne myth in her 1984 b...Read More
Nye, Fountain and McGriff Light Up UT with Verse
The Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas is widely known as one of the nation’s premier creative writing MFA programs. So it’s no ...Read More
A Texas Tongue Untied
San Antonio native (and recent Texas Observer contributor) Laurie Ann Guerrero has just published her second book of poetry, A Tongue in the Mouth of the Dying,...Read More