Forces
Volume 2010 (2017)
Editor Notes
Most years a theme rises to the top of the mix, some underlying motive behind all of our actions and thoughts over the last year. This edition, however, simply marks a theme of absurdity meeting beauty and perseverance like a stick boat on a journey down the curbside in a rainstorm: from a woman facing a visual disability and learning to read later in life to a musing about stirring Kool-Aid with a spoon or one’s arm, from a World War II Victory Garden to the question, “Will Michael meet Farrah in heaven?” Ironically, the absurdity is stoically personified in an interview with Texas Poet Laureate for 2010, Karla Morton, who also shares a few of her poems. The irony, her poems are the result of her writing herself through her battle with cancer: art is hardly the tool with which to battle cancer, is it? That’s absurd.
Complete Issue
2010 Forces
Scott Yarbrough
Photographs
Goodbye to You, Searching
Alyssa Lancaster
Untitled #3
Stephanie Kelly
Photography
Stephanie Kelly
Hippie Hollow
Carissa Battaile
Reflections
Essie P. Graham
Behind Bars
Essie P. Graham
Mr. Giggles
Daniel Shipley
Out of Place
Essie P. Graham
Shedding My Skin
Josh Dryk
The Honorary Title
Daniel Shipley
Winter Scene 2
James G. Robinson
Emi's Feet
Brooke Opie Ragusa
Addressing My Very Mind
Sabrina Mendoza
You Stand in the Window
Sabrina Mendoza
Off the Beaten Path
Alyssa Lancaster
A Train Ride to Happiness
Christina Chuang
Love Always Mary
Crissa Battaile
Cathedral de Toledo, Up the Street
Brian K. Williams
Poems
Tread Soft Here
K.L. Dryk
Available Light
Brian Fenning
Be Careful What You Wish For, Little Girl
Scott Yarbrough
In Camera 102, Hotel de San Francesco
Karla Morton
New Sheets
Karla Morton
Late Scholarly Nights
Sabrina Mendoza
Coffee With Friends
Josh Levinstone
I Don't Know
Brian Fenning
Addictions
Molly Boyce
Moonwalking on a June Thursday
Jessica Gonsoulin
Nursery Rhymes Revisted
C.J. Dunning
Tempus Noctem
K.L. Kdryk
Serendipity
Beth Turner Ayers
Privacy Fence
Kathy Davidson
The Anthony Family
Amy Holt
Glowing in the Dark
Bathshua Thomas
The Perch in Cottonwood Creek
David Knape
Intersection
Beth Turner Ayers
Short Stories
Coping with My Vision Disability
Kathy Orr Allen
A Soldier's Tree
Betsy Giron
Victory Gardens and Tomatoes
Barbara Roth
Encounters with Turkce
Jules Sears
Different Skies
Beverly Sellers
The Visitor
Nancy L. Ross
Well Respected Man
Amy Holt
Painting
When Pigs Fly #1 and #2
Ava Everett
Life Drawings
James G. Robinson
Desolation
Paloma Hernandez
Bereaved Soldier
Michele Cave
Is It There
Brooke Opie Ragusa
Essays
Introduction
Scott Yarbrough
Poetic Grit: An Interview with Karla Morton
Dallie Clark
A Modest Proposal: Drunk Driving
Erica Harvey
Editors
- Editor-in-Chief
- Scott Yarbrough