THE TPA QUARTERLY

since 2025

Volume 1, 2025


EDITOR’S NOTE

January

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


February

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

March

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

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