Poetry
Author Saeed Jones on Empathy, the Power of Memoir, and Growing up Gay in North Texas
“My mission has always been to help people understand that we are never alone in the world.”
Remembering W.S. Merwin, Honorary Texan
The Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, who died at 91 last week, liked pausing by roadsides everywhere in Texas to examine plants, pocket seeds and smell the air.
Lost in Limbo in the Hays County Jail
For 45 painful, lonely days, I waited and waited to be convicted of a crime.
Houston Poet Analicia Sotelo’s Debut Smashes Latino Stereotypes
Sotelo’s incisive and descriptive poems take readers across Texas to interracial weddings, modern cities, dinner parties and mother-daughter conversations.
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