THE TPA QUARTERLY

Volume 4, 2025

December 7, 2025: 14 poems

Sister Lou Ella Hickman, a texan’s response to the parable of the sower

Suzanne Morris, Conditioned

Janelle Curlin-Taylor, Texas Harvest

Milton Jordan, Nazareth and For a Neches River Poet

Stefan Sencerz, Through the Glass

d ellis phelps, some nameless god

Alan Berecka, A Friend in Jesus

William Rosser, Pecans

Jim LaVilla-Havelin, Texas Jesus

Thomas Hemminger, Will You Be Like Him?

R. H. Booker, Dawn-Delivered Messages

Chris Ellery, Transfiguration upon a Dark Day

Seth Wieck, Procession (Anathema Maranatha)

November 2025: 10 poems

Jesse Doiron, Sour Lake circa 1865

Milton Jordan, Third Daughter

Betsy Joseph, Advice to a College-Bound Daughter

Roy Carpenter, Preemptive Elegy for a Texan Friend

Suzanne Morris, Love’s Lookout

Herman Sutter, While She Gets an MRI and She was only six when she learned to fly

Sister Lou Ella Hickman, for elizabeth before surgery at md anderson

Vincent Hostak, Dawdling Toward Eventually

Claude Wolfshohl, Whirligig

October 2025: 25 poems

7 POEMS

John Milkereit, Along the Way

Betsy Joseph, Lost to a River Swollen

Darby Riley, Apples of the Earth

Sumera Saleem, Lowlanders Under High Waters

Elizabeth N. Flores, Ode to Things Done and Remembered in Corpus Christi

Sabra Woodward, Holey Stones in Kerrville, Texas

Jesse Doiron, You

18 BROADSIDES

Milton Jordan, Mostly Thursdays

Alan Berecka, Weighing the Odds

Vincent Hostak, A Harvest with a Fox-Brown Thrush

Clarence Wolfshohl, Birds

Betsy Joseph, Self-Portrait

Fernando Esteban Flores, Melancholy I

Steve Wilson, A Summer

Mark Jodon, You Cannot Stop Me

Suzanne Morris, Vigil

Donna Freeman, At The Border

Chip Dameron, Romanian Flag with a Hole

Chris Ellery, Symbiosis

Thomas Hemminger, Little Dreams

John Rutherford, Aubade

Jesse Doiron, First Light

Irene Keller, My Living Cathedral

Dario Beniquez, Trailway Placard at SH-45

Kathryn Jones, Turn and Face the Wind

Volume 3, 2025

September 2025: 9 poems

Jacob Friesenhahn, Doodlebugs

Milton Jordan, Where Once the Bridge and Two Weeks Off

Vincent Hostak, To the Soft and Armorless

Chris Ellery, Fruit In Memoriam

Irene Keller, Nature’s Independence

Herman Sutter, seven solemn epiphanies: for the flood

Sandi Stromberg, Angkor Wat Siem Reap Cambodia

Robert Allen, On Medina Lake

August 2025: 10 poems

Milton Jordan, Out of Your Way

Jacob Friesenhahn, Mesquite

Jesse Doiron, Dear Editor

Betsy Joseph, Preserved in Amber

Chris Ellery, Sunset Prayer at the Citadel of Allepo

Suzanne Morris, The Dancing Teacher

Vincent Hostak, Driving Lessons

Sister Lou Ella Hickman, an after-harvest during the 1950’s

Alan Berecka, The Ways of God: A Lamentation

Shelley Armitage, Summertime

July 2025: 10 poems

Milton Jordan, On the Edge of the East Texas Field and Boom Times

Elizabeth N. Flores, The Estate Sale

Jesse Doiron, Lifer at the Chapel: Stiles Unit – TDCJ

Benjamin Nash, Jelly

Chris Ellery, Crude Revisions

Jacob Friesenhahn, Waiting for Moonrise

Chip Dameron, Icelandic Moon Walk

Jeffrey L. Taylor, Luling Oil

Darby Riley, Rita at 60

Vincent Hostak, A Portrait of the Poet as a Young Pediatrician

Volume 2, 2025

June 2025: 9 poems

Jim LaVilla-Havelin, Lake of Loss

Milton Jordan, Demographics

Suzanne Morris, When First We Met

Irene Keller, Cinquain Playful Portraits

Vincent Hostak, The Cormorants

Sister Lou Ella Hickman, texas dreamscape

Jeffrey L. Taylor, Yard Sale Senry

Betsy Joseph, Stavros: A Good Shepherd

Chris Ellery, Cutlines for a Photo of Famine

May 2025: 11 poems

Dario Beniquez, Medina Lake

Milton Jordan, Homecoming Sunday and Unmarked Caddo Pathways

Chris Ellery, Lake without Water, and Honors

Betsy Joseph, Imagined Instructions to a Remaining Mate

Alan Berecka, The Right Lexicon

Jim LaVilla-Havelin, Texas Lists: The B List

Robert Allen, Sunshine Symphony

Elizabeth N. Flores, The Morning the Men Talked About Quinceañeras

Jennifer Hill-Flores, White Birds Near Cold Water

April 2025: 10 poems

Herman Sutter, What fruit will fall from this tree

Janelle Curlin-Taylor, Texas Secession

Milton Jordan, Shamrocks and Sagebrush

Elizabeth N. Flores, Mama’s Windows As Time Goes By

Vincent Hostak, Interview with a Texas Oligarch and Drama School

Robert Allen, In His Hands

Thomas Hemminger, Not an Oligarch

Irene Keller, Texas Red-eyed Dragons

Suzanne Morris, Flooding the Zone

Volume 1, 2025

March 2025: 8 poems

Suzanne Morris, Moments

Thomas Hemminger, Should

Alan Berecka, Thoughts on a Successful Secession

Chris Ellery, The Nation-State is a Human Construct

Milton Jordan, At the Senate Hearing

Jim LaVilla-Havelin, A Poem that had Hoped to Remain Decidedly Metaphorical but Couldn’t Help Its Political Veer

Kathryn Jones, February Light

Katherine Hoerth, Crossing the Stateline, 1991, 2021

February 2025: 16 poems

Uliana Trylowsky, Three Days of Snow in Beaumont, TX

Elisa A. Garza, First Week of Fall

Janelle Curlin-Taylor, The Horned Toad, Phrynosoma cornatum

Betsy Joseph, The Breath of Hope

Chris Ellery, Blossom and Bird

d. ellis phelps, friendly state

Vincent Hostak, Hope for the Milkman

Thomas Hemminger, Hope

Milton Jordan, Beckoning Tomorrow

Chip Dameron, Listen to Hootie

Chuck Taylor, Bad Poem For A Bad Idea

Sister Lou Ella Hickman, a question for a fellow texan

Jesse Doiron, Treetop

Barira Nazir, On Finding a Tenure

Irene Keller, This Is What I Know

Robert Allen, Talk to Me

January 2025: 9 poems

Suzanne Morris, civil war

Sumera Saleem, The one who loves, loses

Chris Ellery, Collateral Damage

Robin Carstensen, Pantoum to Disembowel the Texas Sandburs

Kathryn Jones, Eggs and Ammo

Vincent Hostak, Her Beatitudes

Thomas Hemminger, Why?

Grace Nicholson, Brown’s Cemetery

Elizabeth N. Flores, Mateo’s 8th Birthday