Voices as Diverse as the Gulf itself.
Founded by Phillip Lopate and Donald Barthelme in 1986, Gulf Coast is a journal of literature, art, and critical art writing, publishing contributors who represent a flow of international cultures, voices, and aesthetics. Through programs and publications, and in collaboration with the University of Houston, Gulf Coast brings consequential art and writing to an engaged audience.
Gulf Coast is a student-run non-profit entity. To learn more, see our masthead and executive board information here.
Features
Tamara Miller Interviews Nancy Miller Gomez About “Inconsolable Objects.”
Tamara Miller
Well, a lot happens in our lives every day. We experience so many things and most of what we experience—most of what we see and feel and smell and touch and taste—we forget. Because there's just too much information to take in. But the things that lodge in our minds and that come back to us as memories or that we hold on to, I think there's a reason. And that's because it's a poem waiting to happen. 
fever dream sonnet with Francesca Woodman
Anthony Thomas Lombardi
i know you’re thinking of me: it’s just about to rain.
From the GC Blog
Losing the Plot: On Lauren Berlant's Desire/Love
Christina McCausland
In their entry on love, Berlant writes that we tend to (mistakenly) use the objects our desire attaches to in order to assume an identity— “you know who you ‘are’ only by interpreting…
Feeling Political
Anthony Sutton
For Berlant, part of the problem of politics is that marginalized people have to accommodate the feelings of their majority counterparts in order to successfully exist in public, or…
Berlant’s Phraseology: An Impression
Gabriel Ojeda-Sagué
Lauren Berlant was ripe for imitation. Some young scholars imitated them in their writing in the hopes of being taken more seriously, disgruntled students imitated them as a way of…