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
​
​
​
FREE COLLECTIONS
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
untitled
​
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
untitled
​
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
​
untitled
​
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
​
untitled
​
Metro Bus
Museum
​
A Friend
Oklahoma
​
Star Mission of Hope
untitled
​
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
​
untitled
​
​
​
​