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Lone Star Poetry

 


An anthology of selections from the first year of Texas Poetry Assignment is available under the title Lone Star Poetry: Championing Texas Verse, Community, and Hunger Relief published by Kallisto Gaia Press. A portion of the proceeds will go to FEEDING TEXAS.

This anthology includes 90 poems by 42 poets on many topics, in many forms, and from many locations across Texas, the United States, and the globe.

The contributing editors of this anthology, Melanie Alberts, Paola Brinkley, Charles Etheridge, Vincent Hostak, Marilyn Robitaille, and John Rutherford, selected the poems for the anthology.

The senior contributing editor, Milton Jordan, and the general editor, Laurence Musgrove, collaborated on decisions related to the final contents and design.

Contributors

Melanie Alberts, Robert Allen, Jacob Benavides, Alan Berecka, Jerry Bradley, Paola Brinkley, Robin Carstensen, Janelle Curlin-Taylor, Chip Dameron, Roberta Dohse, Jesse Doiron, Chris Ellery, Charles Etheridge, Fernando Flores, Priscilla Frake, Christian Garduno, Michael Helsem, Sister Lou Ella Hickman, Katherine Hoerth, Vincent Hostak, Kathryn Jones, Milton Jordan, Betsy Joseph, Jim LaVilla Havelin, Maria Maloney, Suzanne Morris, karla k morton, Juan Manuel Pérez, Thomas Quitzau, Carol Coffee Reposa, Darby Riley, Marilyn Robitaille, John Rutherford, Sumera Saleem, Jeanie Sanders, Jan Seale, Sandi Stromberg, Herman Sutter, Jeffrey Taylor, Loretta Diane Walker, E. D. Watson, Sarah Webb, Seth Wieck, Dan Williams, Antoinette Winstead

from the back cover

FEEDING TEXAS is the largest hunger-relief organization in Texas. We work collaboratively with our network of 21 food banks to increase food security, improve health and financial stability, and advocate for hunger solutions. We help Texans experiencing food insecurity access food for today, secure benefits for food for tomorrow, and help change systems to ensure food for a lifetime.

We have strong, formal ties to the state agencies that administer SNAP, Medicaid, Child Nutrition, and federal commodities programs. 

We work to educate Texans, engage stakeholders, and persuade decision-makers. Our policy team boasts strong relationships with other statewide organizations and lawmakers across the Texas political spectrum, resulting in concrete state and federal wins for Texans facing hunger. 

Texas Poetry Assignment is one of these groups, and this excellent collection of poetry from across the state and beyond reflects one of these beneficial relationships. FEEDING TEXAS is honored to be part of this publication.

Celia Cole, Chief Executive Officer, Feeding Texas.