Texas Broadsides 2025
Melancholy I
Fernando Esteban Flores
October 5, 2025
Fernando Esteban Flores is a native son of Tejas, a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin, and has published three books of poetry: Ragged Borders, Red Accordion Blues, & BloodSongs available through Hijo del Sol Publishing, published in multiple journals, reviews, newspapers, and online sites, selected in 2018-19 by the Department of Arts & Culture of the City of San Antonio, with support from Gemini Ink for his poem “Song for America V” (Yo Soy San Antonio) as one of 30 poems/poets to commemorate the City’s Tricentennial anniversary, and serves as poetry editor of the Catch the Next Journal of Pedagogy & Creativity. He is the founder of Voces Cósmicas, a group of emerging and established poetry. His book Song for America is scheduled for publication January 2026.
A Harvest with a Fox-Brown Thrush
Vincent Hostak
October 5, 2025
Vincent Hostak is a writer and media producer from Texas now living near the Front Range of Colorado south of Denver. His recently published poems are found in the journals Sonder Midwest and the Langdon Review of the Arts in Texas, and as a contributor to the TPA. He writes and produces the podcast: Crossings: the Refugee Experience in America.
Turn and Face the Wind
Kathryn Jones
October 5, 2025
Kathryn Jones is a poet, journalist, and essayist whose work has been published in The New York Times, Texas Monthly, Texas Highways, and the Texas Observer. Her poetry has appeared in numerous literary journals and anthologies, including TexasPoetryAssignment.com, Unknotting the Line: The Poetry in Prose (Dos Gatos Press, 2023), Lone Star Poetry (Kallisto Gaia Press, 2023), The Senior Class: 100 Poets on Aging (Lamar University Literary Press, 2024); and in her chapbook, An Orchid’s Guide to Life (Finishing Line Press, 2024), and the forthcoming collection The Solace of Wild Places (Lamar University Literary Press, 2025). She was inducted into the Texas Institute of Letters in 2016 and lives on a ranch near Glen Rose, Texas.
My Living Cathedral
Irene Keller
October 5, 2025
Irene Keller, a Texas poet, tries to express in poetry her adoration and respect for nature. She hopes her poem invites others to pause and recall their connections with our natural environment that has so much to offer.
Birds
Clarence Wolfshohl
October 5, 2025
Clarence Wolfshohl has been active in the small press as writer and publisher for over fifty years, publishing poetry and non-fiction in many journals, both print and online. In 2025, he has published Play-Like (Alien Buddha Press) and the chapbook Scattering Ashes (El Grito del Lobo Press).
You Cannot Stop Me
Mark Jodon
October 5, 2025
Mark Jodon is the author of two full-length collections of poetry: Miles of Silence (Kelsay Books, 2024) and Day of the Speckled Trout (Transcendent Zero Press, 2015). Mark is the founder of Poetry @ The Center, a monthly poetry circle in Houston, Texas.
Little Dreams
Thomas Hemminger
October 5, 2025
Thomas Hemminger is an elementary music teacher living in Dallas, Texas. His work has been published locally in Dallas, as well as in The Wilda Morris Poetry Challenge, Texas Poetry Assignment, and The Poetry Catalog. His personal hero is Mr. Fred Rogers, the creator of Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood. It was through America’s favorite “neighbor” that Thomas learned of the importance of loving others, and of giving them their own space and grace to grow.
Romanian Flag with a Hole
Chip Dameron
October 5, 2025
Chip Dameron’s latest book, Relatively Speaking, is a shared collection with Betsy Joseph. A member of the Texas Institute of Letters, he’s also been a Dobie Paisano fellow.
Mostly Thursdays
Milton Jordan
October 5, 2025
Milton Jordan lives with Anne in Georgetown, Texas. He co-edited the first Texas Poetry Assignment anthology, Lone Star Poetry, Kallisto Gaia Press, 2022.
At the Border
Donna Freeman
October 5, 2025
Donna Freeman’s poetry has appeared in Texas Poetry Assignment, Wilderness House Literary Review, Blue Lake Review, Ocean State Poets Anthology, RI Public's Radio "Virtual Gallery." and several ekphrastic exhibits. A former clinical social worker and teacher, she remains passionate about poetry.
First Light
Jesse Doiron
October 5, 2025
Jesse Doiron has worked in Europe, the Middle East, and Asia as an educator and consultant. His teaching experience ranges from English for international business at the UC – Berkeley Extension in San Francisco to creative writing at the Mark Stiles Maximum Security Prison for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.
Weighing the Odds
Alan Berecka
October 5, 2025
Alan Berecka resides with his wife Alice and an ornery rescue dog named Ophelia in Sinton, Texas He retired in January from being a librarian at Del Mar College in Corpus Christi and is settling into a whole new level of contentment. His poetry has appeared in such places as the American Literary Review, Texas Review, and The San Antonio Express. He has authored three chapbooks, and six full collections, the latest of which is Atlas Sighs from Turning Plow Press, 2024. A Living is not a Life: A Working Title (Black Spruce Press, Brooklyn, 2021) was a finalist in the Hoffer Awards. From 2017 to 2019 he served as the first poet laureate of Corpus Christi.
Self-Portrait
Betsy Joseph
October 5, 2025
Betsy Joseph lives in Dallas and has poems which have appeared in a number of journals and anthologies. She is the author of two poetry books published by Lamar University Literary Press: Only So Many Autumns (2019) and Relatively Speaking (2022), a collaborative collection with her brother, poet Chip Dameron. In addition, she and her husband, photographer Bruce Jordan, have produced two books, Benches and Lighthouses, which pair her haiku with his black and white photography.
Symbiosis
Chris Ellery
October 5, 2025
Chris Ellery is author of six poetry collections, most recently One Like Silence and Canticles of the Body. He has received the X.J. Kennedy Award for Creative Nonfiction, the Dora and Alexander Raynes Prize for Poetry, the Betsy Colquitt Award, and the Texas Poetry Prize. He is a member of the Fulbright Alumni Association, the Texas Institute of Letters, and the Texas Association of Creative Writers.
Vigil
Suzanne Morris
October 5, 2025
Suzanne Morris is a novelist and a poet. She and Asher, the dog, continue to reside in the home in Cherokee County, Texas, that Suzanne and her husband built in 2008. Her husband passed away in 2023. Since then, he has been the inspiration for many of her poems.
Trailway Placard at SH-45
Dario Beniquez
October 5, 2025
Dario Beniquez grew up in Far Rockaway, N.Y. He is both a poet and an engineer. He lives in San Antonio, Texas. He graduated from the Pratt Institute, N.Y., with a B.E.I.E. and earned an M.F.A. in creative writing, Pacific University, OR. He also holds a master’s degree in industrial engineering, New Mexico State University. He is the author of the poetry collection Zone of Silence.