Phosphene Magazine
Articles, essays, short fiction, poetry, and other stuff
Fiction & Poetry
Short Fiction
Lazaro Aleman
Richard M. Bolling
Marsha Carter
Christopher Dow
Marie Dybala
Frances Fletcher
Lionel Garcia
Jim Hendrick
Enid Jimenez
Billie Sue Mosiman
Tracey Nichols
Steven Robinson
Jerry Xia
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Phosphene (1978–79) was the first independent, general distribution literary magazine published in Houston, Texas. Featuring poetry, short fiction, and essays, it provided an outlet for talented writers from the city, state, and, occasionally, other regions. This collection presents some of Phosphene’s best pieces and is a must for those interested in Texas literature from the period. (PDF: 188 pages/656k: formatted for loose-leaf binding)
Featuring work by:
Lazaro Aleman, Judson Crews, Earl L. Dachslager, Robert Dante, Christopher Dow, Jan Henson Dow, Gene Fowler, Archibald Henderson, Pat McCulloch, Robin McQuorquodale, Kathryn Stewart McDonald, Harryette Mullen, Marsha Lee Recknagel, Barbara Winder, Christopher Woods, and others
Dialog (1983–84) was the second independent, general distribution literary magazine published in Houston, Texas. With a bimonthly press run of 10,000, it featured poetry, short fiction, essays, and interviews with important regional and national writers. This collection presents some of Dialog’s best pieces and is a must for those interested in Texas literature from the period. (PDF: 195 pages/688k: formatted for loose-leaf binding)
Featuring work by:
James Bettison, Richard M. Bolling, Robert Dante, Christopher Dow, Marie Dybala, Lionel Garcia, Enid Jimenez, Phillip Lopate, Elizabeth McBride, Robin McCorquodale, Vassar Miller, Harryette Mullen, Marie Ponsot, Pattiann Rogers, Christopher Woods, and others
Interviews with:
Lionel Garcia, Leon Hale, Phillip Lopate, Cynthia Macdonald, Michael McClure, Marie Ponsot
Before disappearing into the jungles of the Amazon Basin in 1986, Bartholo Dias was a very special contributor to the poetry scene in Houston, Texas, and touched the lives of a number of local writers. The Abbey Stone is the sole document that Dias left behind. (24 pages/204k: formatted for looseleaf binding)
The Phosphene Poetry Collection
After Dinner Thought
Sketch for Mourning
Lazy Afternoon
Asleep at the Wheel
His Heavy
I Barely Escaped
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Reflections on Work as a "Typist"
To the Pied Piper
Assignment
Lessons in Charm
Miles Per Hour
Red Telephones
Reverse Revenge
Secret Music
The Clouds Had Ribs
The Persistene of Memory
The Price
Traffic Overture
Raining
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Cat's Paw
The Mad Smile of the Half Moon
Who Gains No Wound
The Wanderer
Pecan Day
Abandoned Ruins
City of Dreams
Fall Flies
Mechanics of the Techological Renaissance
Pencil
There is a Map
After Reading Velikovsky
Oh America! Oh Benjamin!
Zen 21
Still Life
Sitting on a Couch with an Absent Jazzman
Certain Doorways
Tigress
In the Coming Railroad Time of This Country
Impatience
Easier
Crackes in Eternity
The Sculptor Manque
Waterlilies
Antes o Despues
My Sister's Diaries
Remembered Fragrance
Straight Man
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On a Lover's Bridge
Aditya
Kwajalein
Shells
The Atoll
History Lesson
The Peril of Travel
Do Dead Men Walk Down Dowling Street?
I Wish You Had Been Higher
Passage
Two Forces
Always
Explanation
For Franz
For the Whale
Masks for Lost Faces
Saipan
Shades of Stillness
Sidi Bou Said
View from a Cliff
Bob Early's Grocery Store in Arkansas
An Executive
Andres Segovia's Concert
Andres Segovia / Henry Moore
August
Homecoming
Rose II
Royce
The Promise
Bing Cherries, Purple Plums
Seachange
A Rage for Order for Rose
Fear
Sleep
What Really Happens
A Brand of Love
Easter Colors
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Metro Bus
Museum
A Friend
Oklahoma
Star Mission of Hope
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A Sequence of Circumstance
Remembering the Imagination: A Love Letter
The Myth of Fields
Going Home
Winter Visitors
The Biloxi Shrimper Confesses to His Monsignor
The Monsignor Repies to the Shrimper
French Lilacs
Two Leaves
The Problem of Wild Horses
Shadow
Tennessee
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