An advertisement From Virginia Gause

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An advertisement From Virginia Gause

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An opinion by Stan Raines The politicians seem to have noticed, perhaps three or four years late as usual, that there’s a problem with fuel prices: They are going up and there seems to be no end in sight. People have been grappling with it for a while, though, not only at the gas station, [...]

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A note for writers The UTPA Summer Creative Writing Institute is in its fifth year. It is a one week intensive program offered with two weeks of independent study offering courses in poetry writing, fiction and non-fiction writing by UTPA accomplished authors and professors. Starting Monday June 2, and ending Friday June 6, 2008, students [...]

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A Poem by Kathy Raines based on a real incident Laughing, trembling soldiers, Longing, crying, drunk. “Free them! Save them!” Singing in their souls, “Bring ‘em on! Bring ‘em on!” Thrumming in their chests, Home ones, loved things, Burning in their minds. Weary, worried saviors Holler, raid and shoot at Thankless, raging freed ones Hiding [...]

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A Poem by Kathy Raines Ranked and filed geraniums, candy apple red Awaited her attention, smiling in their bed. Petals folding, drooping, of a scorching noon, But bathed into bliss in late afternoon As the birds resumed their songs. Weeds and grassy stragglers couldn’t intervene, Plucked away like stray hairs sprouting from her chin, Corraled [...]

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A poem by Thomas Thornburg At the Goins Hotel in Gillette, Wyoming, there is a sign right inside the door: NO PETS NO DOGS NO GUNS NO CREDIT & no spitting on the floor. Leaving the warbag, just in from the gloaming We checked in with Dan & ordered a beer & checked out the [...]

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A poem by Patricia A. a tragedy of four was trimmed to three to fit the clichéd geometric mold of lust, betrayal, and love, or, something that pretends to be love, that takes a form the prey will trust, or needs; that has an insatiable hunger; that devours and discards, and left you, the extra [...]

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