Poem: West Texas Sage
I stop to relish the sudden chill, feel retreating thunder rumbling my bones, hear breezes sliding over damp sand, greedy for its moisture.
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Poem: At the Lindale, Texas Post Office, I Ask for a Book of Stamps
Do you want flags, cowboys, or cowboy hats? A poem by Robin Turner and a message from outgoing TXO poetry editor Naomi Shihab Nye.
The Texas Observer Lives!
After a terrifying near-death experience, we live to muckrake another day.
Poem: Steady the World
“Just hold on,” she said, “hold on with everything I have.”
Malas Calles/Mean Streets
Our streets didn’t need names. We knew where we were. Where we’d been. Where we were going.
The Bards of Texas
A look three cities' most passionate writers: local poets laureate from Dallas, San Antonio and Houston.
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The Voice of Lone Star Poetry
Guadalupe Mendez, Texas poet laureate, reaches out to diverse communities—including his own—thanks to his unique background and vision.
Poem: Uvalde
"Instead, Uvalde will mean something else to you. It won’t feel like a creek-polished stone when you say it."
Poetry: ‘Parade,’ ‘Fever’
From our May/June issue, two poems by proud Texas poet Laurence Musgrove, a professor of English at Angelo State University