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Published: Oct 02, 2017
Kris Gage looks at What Love Is: And What It Could Be.
Published: Oct 04, 2017
Battle of credit scores.
Published: Oct 04, 2017
Legalizing cannabis production in the U.S. South could revitalize state economies.
Published: Oct 05, 2017
"And yet they continue to try to keep her at bay."
Published: Oct 10, 2017
"I’d read once that Salinas, the surname that graces every form of my identity, was born in the salt mines of old Spain, where many men surely perished."
Published: Oct 11, 2017
Brianna Keeper's "Cube Houses, Rotterdam" painting in San Antonio Review.
Published: Oct 13, 2017
Published: Nov 15, 2017
Bekah McNeel reviews Addicted to Reform: A 12-Step Program to Rescue Public Education.
Published: Nov 25, 2017
"I remember the promise of the mountains, the alpine summer breeze clearing / our pores, the entranced look you gave me on Highway 14"
Published: Dec 01, 2017
Published: Dec 04, 2017
"Usually the primary challenge is staying awake. On that Monday night, the primary challenge was keeping my faith."
Published: Dec 04, 2017
Published: Jan 02, 2018
"How do you want to be remembered by your students? And, more importantly, when?"
Published: Mar 19, 2018
"Philip Levine taught me the simple truth, and Pablo Neruda showed me love and despair."
Published: Apr 19, 2018
"My heart is encased in shark teeth, is a rubber shield of death impenetrable"
Published: Jun 09, 2018
"Our mutual calamity became the center that holds us together, our scarred and sunken ground zero."
Published: Jan 17, 2019
"The part when I speak un poquito Spanish, / But not the part when I can’t understand Grandma"
Published: Apr 22, 2019
"When I tap the glass to see if he’s / still alive, I think about my little brother, / who spends twenty-three hours a day / confined to a 6 by 8 cell."
Published: Apr 25, 2019
"and sometimes writer friends / would quote Kerouac / and his California dispatches"
Published: Apr 26, 2019
"The sex robot is accommodating and hints at numbers I stumble over like a teenager running late for class."
Published: Apr 28, 2019
"The queen buzzed rage at her daughter’s failures, took credit for successes."
Published: May 01, 2019
"... but instead I rebelled and became a bearded freak in the green mountains of Vermont ... "
Published: May 04, 2019
"your father dies and then / your brother but / the bills still have to be paid"
Published: May 15, 2019
"That night I said we could live somewhere / he didn’t have a map to, / but she told me I should leave instead."
Published: May 25, 2019
"I can’t close the browser window in my brain / long enough to enjoy a blank screen"
Published: Jun 06, 2019
It takes a fat wallet — and a community of readers and writers
Published: Jun 12, 2019
"Except the weight of consequence / That has variations of endurance"
Published: Jun 19, 2019
"Last night, a boy again, / fell from Ohio’s steamy sky, / shedding his ivory northwest skin"
Published: Jul 03, 2019
"We are Napoleonic Code here in Jefferson Parish. We don’t trouble our neighbor and our neighbor don’t trouble us. Except when they do."
Published: Jul 24, 2019
"I am condescended to / Like a walking diaper / At best, except it’s my head / That’s incontinent."
Published: Aug 11, 2019
"after i finally write about being / mexican i am told i can’t write / a whole book about being mexican"
Published: Aug 28, 2019
"A redhead when she was young, Winifred must have equated herself with the fox, the terrified object of the hunt desperately trying to escape the hunters."
Published: Sep 22, 2019
"That boy played like nothing we could afford. / A hundred-year whiskey on the rocks."
Published: Oct 14, 2019
Published: Nov 18, 2019
William O. Pate II reviews Alex Z. Salinas' debut book of poetry, WARBLES.
Published: Dec 07, 2019
"Rescuing the games of the past is fundamental in that society where new technologies invade everything."
Published: Dec 08, 2019
“Closer than what I remember as the edge / of the earth with a sail cast out on string”
Published: Jan 22, 2020
"You eat steak, you want sex; you want sex, you want sex.”
Published: Mar 04, 2020
"My folks sent me away to live with my Aunt Charlene and Uncle Bud in eastern Colorado the summer of 1969, praying I’d come back a reformed boy."
Published: Mar 15, 2020
Christine Sloan Stoddard shares her art and work with adults with disabilities.
Published: Mar 22, 2020
"In my son’s wide eyes I can see / the steeple of the church we left / after one too many dirty looks
Published: Apr 15, 2020
"And each time I’m reminded of my age / and that this is how it will be."
Published: Apr 26, 2020
"Last semester, a student with Asperger’s announced / to our class that yes, Frank O’Hara was right"
Published: May 13, 2020
"And you journey here in couples or groups, / intent on wading out into my waters"
Published: May 20, 2020
"You will not forget what you were made for, / And you will not ever give up the fight."
Published: Jun 15, 2020
“They passed a law over a decade ago in our state permitting us to marry, but we never did.”
Published: Jun 16, 2020
“You’re the last dark matter from another outgoing night”
Published: Jun 28, 2020
"coins pour from hell’s own slot machine into the lap of the world"
Published: Jun 30, 2020
The NAACP's 1919 pamphlet detailing a Gov. Hobby-endorsed attack against Shillady is reprinted in SAR III.
Published: Jun 30, 2020
Staff suggestions from San Antonio Review's third print edition.
Published: Jul 01, 2020
"Brian May’s journey is worth considering because he reminds us of how often we sell ourselves short."
Published: Jul 01, 2020
Or, How Neoliberal Higher Education Funding Drove My Family into Bankruptcy
Published: Jul 03, 2020
Published: Jul 04, 2020
"Dali’s goddess of fecundity floats / On the rock of nudity like a pomegranate"
Published: Jul 09, 2020
The American counterculture's desire to live irresponsibly is reflected in Ishmael Reed's work.
Published: Jul 11, 2020
Published: Jul 15, 2020
"It’s hard to be a city at night, sleeping along this big river. So much wakes you from slumber ... "
