Table of Contents, Volume One, 2004

Poetry

CLEATUS RATTAN
Why I Write
He Thought It Was Exciting (For JCO)
Glaring
Mother Swing by the House
Heroine Turned Human
A Lot You'd Care
You Got That From Me
"Black as the pit. . ."

JILL ALEXANDER ESSBAUM
Self-Portrait With a Bandaged Ego
Was the Wand
Dueling
These are the days
What We Didn't
Bed of Signs
On the Second Day
What We Did

JAMES HOGGARD
The Rhythms Of Closeness, The Touch Of the Word
Preface
Evening Wind
Four lane Road
Eleven A.M.
Cape Cod Evening
Sunlight In a Cafeteria
Office In A Small City

Translation

LYNN HOGGARD
Barreling Over The Falls
Marie D'Agoult's Nelida
Nelida

Essays

TOM PILKINGTON
Texas Literature: Past, Present, Future

LOU HALSELL RODENBERGER
Sloshing Around in the Mainstream

BETTY WIESEPAPE
The Wild Bunch: Texans Who Dared to Read

Art

CHERYL WESTGARD VOGEL
Valley House Gallery and Sculpture Garden Celebrates its 50th Anniversary

Color plates:
Claude Venard
Clara McDonald Williamson
Hugh H. Breckenridge
Mary Vernon
Donald S. Vogel
Barnady Fitzgerald
Miguel Zapata
Bob Stuth-Wade
Valton Tyler
Philip John Evett

Photography
KARL THIBODEAUX
Perspectives on the Familiar

Religion

ROBERT FLYNN
Preface
The Door: The World's Pretty Much Only Magazine of REligious Satire

GREG GARRETT
How to Be an American Novelist Despite Being Raised Southern and Baptist
From Sanctuary: In the Garden

Film

SAM DODSON
The Cinema of UT: An Interview With Thomas G. Schatz

Drama

RICHARD RANKIN RUSSELL
The Horton Foote American Playwrights Festival of Baylor University

LEANNA SKARNULIS
Drama in the Living Room

Music

LARRY JOE TAYLOR
Texas Music

Leisure

JAMES WARD LEE
I am Not a Writer
Tickets to the Devil

Fiction

PHYLLIS ALLEN
Sweet Pecolia Coffee

JUDY ALTER
Yes, I am a writer
The Sign of the Cross

JAN EPTON SEALE
Preface
Brush Boy
Camp Knowledge

Editorial

DONNA WALKER-NIXON
MARILYN ROBITAILLE