Table of Contents, Volume Four, 2007

Poetry

CARMEN TAFOLLA
Between the Printed Letters
Why I Tell the Story
Fragile Flames
Betrayal
Asked to Translate Monte
Flour Tortillas!
What to Say to Your Chicano Lover of 25 Years
Don't Bury Me Naked
Spreading My Mexican Blood
Who Speaks in My Back Yard?
Curandera, Healer

PAUL CHRISTENSON
Looking for the Other World
The First Drink of the Day
The Post Oak Mall
Friday Nights
The Lecture
At the Bank
In TV Land
Cell Phones
At McDonald's
Where I Go Each Night

JACK MYERS
  Small Steps
Someone Else's Shoes
What the Old Master Said
for Jack Gilbert
How Do You Put Up with Me
Swerves and Flashes
Nose Job
Duds
The Fried Sex of His Existence
Fragments
Ches'sed*
Dark Matter

DAVE PARSONS
Preface
Stepdaughter
Drifting In
Evidence
Fire
Lake Lady Dancing on the Hill
The Marriage Lost

Biographical Introductory Essay
CHARLES BEHLEN
What Thou Lovest Well Remains Texan
Texas Poetry: "Faire, Foul and Full of Variations" A Conversation with Dave Oliphant
 
DAVE OLIPHANT
Claudio Arrau on Public Television
Two Texas Poets Rendezvous at the Bowie Public Library
Preface
Bees & Blue Salvia
Annabella Pretends

Religion

  LESLIE WILLIAMS
Preface
The End, and the Beginning, of Time
Song
Meaning
Tenants
Dried Grass
Leaving Home
To My Father

Fiction

CARLTON STOWERS
Preface
The Birthday

MIKE KEARBY
Preface
An Excerpt from The 13th Baktun.

Art

JUDITH SEGURA
Barnaby Fitzgerald: A Life in Art

BARNABY FITZGERALD
Artwork
 

Short Personal Essay

PAUL RUFFIN
The Stuff I Write and Why I Write It

Drama

GRAYSON HARPER
Start with What You Have
Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear By Vincent Van Gogh

Film

ROBERT ANDERSON
On Location with Documentary Production

Biographical Essay

MINNIE NORTON BROWNE
Dora Lee Langdon

WILLIAM E. REAVES AND BILL CHEEK
A Renaissance Man of Texas
Persuasion: The Artistry of John Bruce "Jack" Erwin

Folklore and Literature

MICHAEL  H. PRICE
Folklore and Fiction: The Faces of a Coin

Medical Narrative

RICHARD M. ZANER
A Brief Preface for "It Must Have Rained Hard That Night in March"
"It Must Have Rained Hard That Night in March"

Music

RAHIM QUAZI
The Scene and Me (Together Forever) 

Nature and Art

CHARLES LOHRMANN
Deconstructing the Texas Landscape

MALOU FLATO
Artwork

Editorial

Contributors
Acknowledgment

Comments

DONNA WALKER-NIXON
MARILYN ROBITAILLE