Table of Contents, Volume Two, 2005

Poetry

ALAN BIRKELBACH
An Impromptu View
The Man Who Didn't Mean to Take Awa My Faith
Like a Bolt
Robert Frost Among the Cannibals
Vincent Van Gogh Rode with LBJ One Day
Skeffington's Daughter
Like the Mother Finding Her Daughter's Baby in a Drawer
Where All Things Are Fixed
The Wife of the Lumberjack King
Pinocchio
A Bowl

LARRY THOMAS
The Terrible Power of Words
Artificial Fruit
Bach
Holdout
Hopper Retrospective
Pastelist
Sparrow Egg
The Atmosphere
Winter Trees

REBECCA BÁLCARCEL
  Attempting the Impossible
Ay, Yolanda!
Ave America
Boy Picking Flower, Colored by Five-Year-Old
Christening
Dawn
We. the Mortal

CAROL REPOSA
Preface
On Lemmings, Ground Beef, and Crayons: One Writer's Life
Viewing the Nazca Lines
Saturday Night in Lima
Costa Verde, Peru
Galápagos Soap Opera
Surveillance in Moscow
Rubles
Underground Musicians, Moscow
Fire-Gilding St. Isaac's
At the Nizhny-Novgorod Depot
On the Eve of Departure

ESSAYS

Literature

THEA TEMPLE
Why a Literate Culture is Important, or Why I Founded the Writer's Garret

J. PAUL HOLCOMB
The Poetry Society of Texas

Art

PHILLIP COLLINS
Sedrick Huckaby

SEDRICK HUCKABY
Artwork

JACKIE MACLELLAND
Women with a History

PUNCH SHAW
Albany, Texas and the Old Jail Art Center

Photography

DIANA LYN ROBERTS
Capturing Possible Realities

DEBRA SHORE
Portraits for the Cure

Drama

WILLIAM B. MARTIN
Paying Attention to Dramatic Trilogies

Religion

DENNIS COVINGTON
The Bloody Theater of the Texas Mennonites

Dance

NEIL ELLIS ORTS
The Kathy Dunn Hamrick Dance Company: A Profile in Motion

Music

MICHAEL REMSON
Making Music Matter: Ten Years of Arts Education in Houston

PERSONAL NARRATIVE

Film

GARY COGILL
Primer: So Out of the Box

Leisure

DOMINIQUE INGE
The Making of a Texas Garden or Survival of the Fittest

Fiction

BARRY CORBIN
Preface
The Demon Drain

JIM SANDERSON
Justifying My Existence
Hemingway's Lighthouse

LAVERNE HARRELL CLARK
Why I Write and What's Important to Me as a Writer
Their Eyes Were on the Chickadee

L. D. CLARK
Why I Write
Joshua Briscoe

Editorial Comments

DONNA WALKER-NIXON
MARILYN ROBITAILLE