Martha tried to get a hold of Frank. / She sent a carrier pigeon / with a carrier pigeon attached to it / so he could send a reply. / But her fear now / is that this new carrier pigeon team / might …
I have a long history/ of underreacting. / Of / overreacting. / My / sacred identities. / I make / Kendrick Lamar memes / with pictures of my daughter / wearing water wings. / I have trouble / …
Sometimes, / it’s as dull / as it should be. / I iron / little clothes. / We’re not / here for very long.
The capacity / for two lives. / The inability / to choose. / When a myth / induces faith, / death—life’s safety— / is removed. / A wild gift / in a / tidy package. / The boner spam / I get at …
I don’t / really get / the survival instinct. / In / finite things, in / infinite things. / Being spoiled / is evidence / of over-evolution. / The death / wish. / The grief / economy. / Strategic / …
Janet was ten when our town turned to poultry. Layers and broilers at first, but there was no profit in eggs and soon it was all just pluck and slaughter. She stood alongside line workers, barefoot …
Dr. Pendergraph tells me there’s something wonky with my rods and cones. He says this as I stare into his great white machine with the tiny hot air balloons shuttering before my eyes; I always …
By “traditional dynamic of the workshop,” I mean the ritual by which you “complete” a working draft and then bring that piece to a table or seminar room circled by your peers (and one or more …
Last weekend, Gulf Coast Journal celebrated Latino literature, culture, and Hispanic heritage heroes at Houston’s LibroFest. In the festival’s fourth year, literary arts organizations, …
In Lorrie Moore’s pitch perfect short story, “Agnes of Iowa,” her eponymous central character attempts to encourage Christa, a young African American woman in her creative writing class. The …
On the last leg of my book tour in 2013, I was invited to do an event at the Asian American Writers Workshop. I was there to promote my novel Southern Cross the Dog . The book is about a young …
As a professor who teaches in the creative writing, literature, and Latino studies programs at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, where we offer the Ph.D. with a creative dissertation, I’ve been …
In the typical creative writing workshop, a group of the writer’s peers discuss her work while she stays silent. “One of the most useful things a workshop can do for the writer is to reflect the …
Kaitlyn Greenidge Sackett Street and author of We Love You Charlie Freeman "I would say, number one is include people of color on the syllabus. Especially include living, contemporary writers. People …
How to frame for you the work of Amaal Said , a London-rooted, Danish-born artist whose photography and writing irradiate landscapes with color and light? How to capture for you all the ways that she …
A flood takes no notice of the borders we construct between inside and out. Like Cassandra sitting in the kitchen sink at her window, the Willoweed family and servant Old Ives can do nothing but …
By the time you read this, I'll be in the air. Southbound already. And if the habit holds, all flight I'll be following the small, animated, real-time tracker with its shuffle of views and the …
"I am thinking that a poem could go on forever." —Jack Spicer Tell me the story of the night I was born. Mother's palm on her laboring back, shopping for china. This is an origin story, like the …
Pagaría muchísimo dinero por tener todavía esos emails que les escribí a mi familia y amigos en enero, 2003, desde Canyon Ranch. Tengo la sospecha de que son los mejores textos que he escrito en …
September is upon us, and with it, so is another Gulf Coast Blogger in residence. We're pleased to bring you discussions on craft, interviews and other media from R. A. Villanueva, author of …