Poets

OUR COMMUNITY OF WRITERS

Since the beginning of the Pandemic in March 2020, the writers listed below have contributed their work to three online projects, now all published on this site: TEJASCOVIDO, TEXAS POETRY BALLOTS, and TEXAS POETRY ASSIGNMENT.

As of 2023, these writers include 19 members of the Texas Institute of Letters and 5 Texas Poet Laureates.


Shelley Armitage — Alan Birkelbach (Texas Poet Laureate, 2005) — Jerry Bradley — Jerry Craven — Terry Dalrymple — Chip Dameron —Chris Ellery — Katherine Hoerth — Kathryn Jones — karla k. morton (Texas Poet Laureate, 2010) — Carol Coffee Reposa (Texas Poet Laureate, 2018) — Clay Reynolds — Jan Seale (Texas Poet Laureate, 2012) — Steven P. Schneider — W.K. Stratton — Larry D. Thomas (Texas Poet Laureate, 2008) — Loretta Diane Walker — Dan Williams — Steve Wilson

TEXAS POETRY ASSIGNMENT CONTRIBUTORS

Melanie Alberts — Robert Allen — Nicholas Allison — Shelley Armitage — Walter Bargen — Jacob R. Benavides — Dario Beniquez — Jim Benton — Alan Berecka — Jerry Bradley — Paola Brinkley — Robin Carstensen — Karen Cline-Tardiff — D.A. Cooper — Jerry Craven — Sherry Craven — Janelle Curlin-Taylor — Chip Dameron — Roberta Shellum Dohse — Jesse Doiron — Chris Ellery — Chuck Etheridge — Elizabeth N. Flores — Fernando Esteban Flores — Priscilla Frake — Donna Freeman — Theresa Garcia-Ruiz — Christian Garduno — Kevin Garrison — Elisa A. Garza — Lyman Grant — Suzanne “Zan” Green — Amy L. Greenspan — Natasha Haas — Cathy Hailey — Daryl Halencak — Michael Helsem — Thomas Hemminger — Sister Lou Ella Hickman — James Higgins — Katherine Hoerth — Vincent Hostak — Lori Janick — Mark Jodon —Kathryn Jones — Anne Jordan — Milton Jordan — Betsy Joseph — Paul Juhasz — Irene Keller — Laurie Kolp —Yahia Lababidi — Jim LaVilla-Havelin — Kendra Leonard — Carlos Loera — William David Mainous II — M. Miranda Maloney — John McMeans— Kathryn Merry — Irena Moon-QuitzauSuzanne Morris — karla k morton — Jeffrey G. Moss —Thomas Murphy — Charlotte Muse — Benjamin Nash — Juan Manuel Pérez — d. ellis phelps —Vianna Posadas — Thomas Quitzau — Carol Coffee Reposa — Darby Riley — Marilyn Robitaille — Gary S. Rosen —Sumera Saleem — Jeanie Sanders — Jan Seale — Stefan Sencerz Linda Simone — Matthew Sisson — Reilly Smith — Skeeter Smith — Alan Steelman — Sandi Stromberg — Herman Sutter — Marcy Tanter — Charles Taylor — David Taylor — Jeffrey L. Taylor — Margo Stutts Toombs — Ulia Trylowsky — Loretta Diane Walker — E. D. Watson — Sarah Webb — Seth Wieck — Nate Wilbert — Dan Williams — Steve Wilson — Antoinette F. Winstead

TEXAS POETRY BALLOT CONTRIBUTORS

Matthew Arnold — Jerry Bradley — Paola Brinkley — Hal C. Clark — Sherry Craven — Margo Davis — Jesse Doiron — Chris Ellery — Casey Ford — Christian Garduno — Lyman Grant — Renae Brumbaugh Green — Jean Hackett — Katherine Hoerth — Gretchen Johnson — Kathryn Jones — Ulf Kirchdorfer — Christopher L. Morrow — Tom Murphy — Meg Oldman — Juan Manuel Pérez — Moumin Quazi — Carol Coffee Reposa — Marilyn Robitaille — Sumera Saleem — Jan Seale — Herman Sutter — Jeffrey L. Taylor — Loretta Diane Walker — Nate Wilbert — Donald Mace Williams — Steve Wilson — Antoinette F. Winstead

TEJASCOVIDO CONTRIBUTORS

Robert Allen — Dario R. Beniquez — Alan Birkelbach — Robin Bissett — Jerry Bradley — Jacinto Jesús Cardona — Chantel L. Carlson — Julie Chappell — Kevin Clay — Jessica Neno Cloud — Garrett Cole — Tess Coody-Anders — Jerry Craven — Sherry Craven — Wade Crowder — Colin Cummings — Terry Dalrymple — Jesse Doiron — Richard Dixon — Jason Edwards — Chris Ellery — Charity Embley — Chuck Etheridge — Brian Fehler — Jonathan Fletcher — Fernando Esteban Flores — Michael J. Galko — Alicia Zavala Galván — Jules Gates — Anna B. Gonzalez — Lyman Grant — Lucy Griffith — Jean Hackett — Ken Hada — Al Haley — Michael Helsem — Rodolfo Hernandez Jr. — Mark H. W. Hiebert — Katherine Hoerth — Vincent Hostak — Yazmin Aliyah Jimenez — Vanessa Couto Johnson — Elizabeth D. Jones — Hank Jones — Kathryn Jones — Kenneth Jones — Paul Juhasz — Craig Kinney — Ulf Kirchdorfer — Chad Knesek — Jim LaVilla-Havelin — Sarah K. Lenz — Kendra Preston Leonard— Avery Mann — Richard McAlister — Janet McCann — Bill McCloud — Grace Megnet — Zee Mink-Fuller — Mackenzie Moore — Steven Moore — Susan Signe Morrison — karla k morton — Tom Murphy — Benjamin Nash — Joanna Nellie Navarro — Joe O'Connell — Salena Parker — V. Paige Parker— Andrea Perez — Mary Guerrero Perez — Randy T. Prus — Moumin Quazi — Octavio Quintanilla — Clay Reynolds — Lee Robinson — Marilyn Robitaille — René Saldaña, Jr. — Sumera Saleem — Lisa Toth Salinas — Katharyn Salsman — Jeanie Sanders — Steven P. Schneider — Stephen Schwei — T. Wayne Schwertner — Jan Seale— Linda Simone — Grant Sisk — W. K. Stratton — Karyn Suggs — Herman Sutter — Marcy L. Tanter — Jeffrey L. Taylor — Larry D. Thomas — Loretta Diane Walker — Ron Wallace — E. D. Watson — Marilyn Westfall — Ken Wheatcroft-Pardue — Cullen Whisenhunt — Seth Wieck — Nate Wilbert — Debbie Williams — Sunny Anne Williams — Steve Wilson — Antoinette F. Winstead — Mallory Young