A stunning layered poem weaves La Llorona, German immigrants, Hill Country floods & Ignatian prayer into a meditation on grief, witness & community. https://sanantonioreview.org/2026/07/04/although-to-witness-may-risk-false-equivalence/ #Poetry #TexasHillCountry #LaLlorona

A farm stands guard over its own emptiness. This ekphrastic poem after Kenjiro Nomura's 1934 painting haunts with silence and absence. https://sanantonioreview.org/2026/07/03/melancholy-mystery/ #EkphrasticPoetry #Absence #MelancholyMystery #SanAntonioReview

"Any umbrella won't be umbrella enough / against the coming storm." A poem of sleepless dread and too many screens. Read it now. https://sanantonioreview.org/2026/07/02/waiting-for-the-bombs/ #Poetry #Apocalypse #Insomnia #SanAntonioReview

"As soon as I put words to the feeling, it's gone." This essay on riding, language, and the limits of human thought is extraordinary. https://sanantonioreview.org/2026/07/01/sitting-in/ #HorseWriting #LiteraryEssay #CreativeNonfiction #SanAntonioReview

"A line traversed repeatedly until it becomes a path is called a desire line." This found poem stitches headlines & philosophy into something haunting. https://sanantonioreview.org/2026/06/30/depravity-begins-a-found-poem/ #FoundPoetry #DesireLine #SanAntonioReview

A gorgeous poem imagining Gregg Popovich writing to Tim Duncan—swimming, grief, loyalty, and what endures beyond the game. https://sanantonioreview.org/2026/06/29/an-open-letter-from-gregg-popovich-to-tim-duncan/ #SportsPoetry #SpursFamily #LiteraryBasketball #SanAntonioReview

A tarnished spoon, a red vinyl booth, a first cup of coffee at 16—this luminous story polishes memory like silver. Read it now: https://sanantonioreview.org/2026/06/28/bill-nadas-salt-lake-city-utah/ #CreativeNonfiction #Memoir #LiteraryJournal #SanAntonioReview

A poem made of silence and punctuation—'Self-portrait as period' buries grief between the dots. Stunning visual poetry. https://sanantonioreview.org/2026/06/27/self-portrait-as-period/ #VisualPoetry #ConcretePoetry #Grief #SanAntonioReview

A peony ring by any other name... This poem about transplanted gardens and linguistic misadventures is quietly brilliant. https://sanantonioreview.org/2026/06/26/peony-rings/ #Poetry #GardenPoems #SouthernLiving #SanAntonioReview

A poem about rejection, resilience, and the long bus ride home from the privileged side of town. Quiet defiance has never hit harder. https://sanantonioreview.org/2026/06/25/trying-out-for-hoop-on-the-privileged-side-of-town/ #Poetry #Resilience #ClassDivide #SanAntonioReview

A runaway teen, the quiet of wild places, and a $100 flute that changed everything. This memoir by a writer who learned how not to be alone is extraordinary. https://sanantonioreview.org/2026/06/24/music-1976/ #Memoir #Music #Resilience #SanAntonioReview

A quiet, devastating poem about the slow erosion of memory — when being lost becomes forgetting entirely. Read "Lost is Forgotten" now. https://sanantonioreview.org/2026/06/23/lost-is-forgotten/ #Poetry #Memory #Alzheimers #SanAntonioReview

A devastating poem of refusal and mourning—"Mifepristone" is by turns tender and unflinching. Read it now. https://sanantonioreview.org/2026/06/22/mifepristone/ #Poetry #ReproductiveRights #LiteraryJournal #SanAntonioReview

A kitchen table holds everything—geometry homework, campaign call sheets, Girl Scout forms, and the fractal geometry of family life. https://sanantonioreview.org/2026/06/21/tangent-properties-angles-of-love/ #CreativeNonfiction #FamilyLife #ComingOfAge #SanAntonioReview

"Shaped like an act of God, / we aim for truth and justice / the American way." A devastating poem by its quiet precision. https://sanantonioreview.org/2026/06/20/becoming-the-bullet/ #Poetry #GunViolence #AmericanViolence #SanAntonioReview

Slavery's end in the U.S. was long, difficult, and uneven. This deep dive into Juneteenth traces the staggered history from proclamation to true abolition. https://sanantonioreview.org/2021/06/21/juneteenth/ #Juneteenth #Emancipation #AmericanHistory #SanAntonioReview

Desire hums through a crowded street in this electric poem by Scott Burau—cruising, catching eyes, everything unspoken yet felt. https://sanantonioreview.org/2026/06/19/open-season/ #Poetry #Desire #Provincetown #SanAntonioReview

"2:48 AM on repeat." A grief poem that replays old messages and memories to keep the dead among the living. Read "Dead of Night" now. https://sanantonioreview.org/2026/06/18/dead-of-night/ #GriefPoetry #Memory #Loss #SanAntonioReview

A late period, a drugstore aisle, and the terrifying weight of a plastic bag. "Pulled Outward" is a sharp, funny, achingly real story about the paralysis of becoming. https://sanantonioreview.org/?p=15181 #FlashFiction #LiteraryFiction #ComingOfAge #SanAntonioReview

"Snakes avoid the scene religiously. Venom / is a burden best born alone." A haunting poem of ghost towns and survival by the last one left standing. https://sanantonioreview.org/?p=18395 #Poetry #GhostTown #Leadville #SanAntonioReview

Underground networks, lost signals, roots that persist—this poem weaves the digital and the organic into something quietly urgent. https://sanantonioreview.org/2026/06/15/connections/ #Poetry #Mycorrhizae #Nature #SanAntonioReview

A boy, a borrowed pickup, two strangers, and a night of planting secrets along a Texas highway. This story will stay with you. Read "Odd Couple" now. https://sanantonioreview.org/2026/06/14/odd-couple/ #LiteraryFiction #ShortStory #ComingOfAge #SanAntonioReview

A boy, a highway, two strangers, and a secret planted in the brush. Julia Maund's "Odd Couple" is a stunning coming-of-age story about the gaps we never question. https://sanantonioreview.org/2026/06/14/odd-couple/ #ShortFiction #ComingOfAge #LiteraryFiction #SanAntonioReview

A devastating poem by turns geological and deeply human — "Gaza Stone" traces memory, color, and loss beneath the rubble. https://sanantonioreview.org/2026/06/13/gaza-stone/ #Poetry #Gaza #WarAndMemory #SanAntonioReview

A mother, a daughter, a ghost in white—this poem captures one haunting night that became a tender threshold of growing up. https://sanantonioreview.org/2026/06/12/the-night-my-daughter-saw-emily-dickinsons-ghost-white-dress-and-all/ #EmilyDickinson #Poetry #GhostStory

"Seven years in the top left jacket pocket, / time has wrinkled this picture well." A tender poem of carrying someone close — read "I Carry This" now. https://sanantonioreview.org/2026/06/11/i-carry-this/ #Poetry #Grief #Memory #SanAntonioReview

A crumbling hospital, a former actor's fading mind, a niece's fierce devotion — "Theatre of Solace" is a story that will stay with you long after the last line. https://sanantonioreview.org/2026/06/10/theatre-of-solace/ #LiteraryFiction #Shakespeare #Caregiving

"I am Papaya, my flesh is laid bare" — a fierce, visceral poem reclaiming the body from consumption. Read it now. https://sanantonioreview.org/2026/06/09/papaya/ #Poetry #Papaya #BodyAutonomy #SanAntonioReview

A requiem for a satellite — burning through atmosphere like an angel, shattering into the infinitesimal. This poem mourns and celebrates the voyager in all of us. https://sanantonioreview.org/2026/06/08/requiem-for-a-satellite-open-the-sky/ #SpacePoetry #Reentry #Voyagers

A babysitter, three grieving sisters, and the quiet magic of drawing each other. "A Way of Keeping" is fiction that aches with tenderness. https://sanantonioreview.org/2026/06/07/a-way-of-keeping/ #LiteraryFiction #FamilyAndLoss #ShortFiction #SanAntonioReview

“They say / lots of things,” those eyes said

A poem of brutal contrasts—bacon and butchery, luxury and violence, faith and appetite. "Bacon in Dubai" cuts deep. https://sanantonioreview.org/2026/06/06/bacon-in-dubai/ #Poetry #Faith #Consumption #SanAntonioReview

A prose poem channels Doctorow's spirit—where living is dying and the dancing never stops. Half-truths, half-lies, and a dare over the hill. https://sanantonioreview.org/2026/06/05/who-wants-to-be-e-l-doctorow/ #ProsePoetry #Doctorow #LiteraryTribute #SanAntonioReview

A honeymoon farmhouse. A locked basement. A marriage built on secrets that scratch at the walls. "No Egress" is stunning, haunting prose you won't shake easily. https://sanantonioreview.org/?p=14402 #LiteraryFiction #DarkProse #HauntedMarriage #SanAntonioReview

"We're cut from the same cloth, making up one quilt of humanity." A powerful new poem by turns tender and urgent. https://sanantonioreview.org/2026/06/03/we-are-patches/ #Poetry #Humanity #QuiltOfLife #SanAntonioReview

Rain, memory, loss, and pizza shared in grief—"Domestic Sentences 47" is a quiet devastation. Read it now. https://sanantonioreview.org/2026/06/02/domestic-sentences-47/ #Prose #Grief #Memory #SanAntonioReview

A fugitive's westward flight ends where the continent does. This stunning poem by turns mythic and brutal traces a life from Indiana to the redwood gallows. https://sanantonioreview.org/2026/06/01/gallows/ #Poetry #AmericanWest #GallowsPoem #SanAntonioReview

A bingo caller, a guarded widow, and the quiet grief they share on a porch above the bay. "B 11" is a tender, deeply human story by a gifted writer. https://sanantonioreview.org/2026/05/31/b-11/ #LiteraryFiction #ShortStory #Grief #SanAntonioReview

sometimes paradise is just a gorgeous choir / singing to itself

"Maybe I'm just a man who wants to be warm in February... who wants to be alive—simply, stubbornly alive." A stunning poem about longing, place, and conscience. https://sanantonioreview.org/2026/05/30/going-back/ #Poetry #QueerWriting #Florida #SanAntonioReview

This poem hits like exhaustion itself — the rhythms of surviving college, 2am nachos, audiobooks at 2x speed. "muscle memory" is raw and unforgettable. https://sanantonioreview.org/2026/05/29/muscle-memory/ #Poetry #CollegeLife #Texas #SanAntonioReview

"Like hoping, again, and again, and again–" A luminous poem of small wonders holding us together. Read this gorgeous piece now. https://sanantonioreview.org/2026/05/28/what-are-we-if-not-held-together-by-little-dreams/ #Poetry #LittleDreams #Tenderness #SanAntonioReview

"Her soft, gentle hands carried mountains / and made the grass disappear into the sky." A luminous poem by a voice that turns grief and tenderness into steel. https://sanantonioreview.org/2026/05/27/my-mothers-hands/ #Poetry #Motherhood #Elegy #SanAntonioReview

A devastating novella set in occupied Germany, 1945: a rocket scientist caught between captors, hostile neighbors, and the weight of what he won't confess. Gripping historical fiction. sanantonioreview.org/2026/02/15/o... #HistoricalFiction #WWII #PostwarGermany #SanAntonioReview

Roadside memorials, red leaves on snow like unreadable postcards — "Domestic Sentences 45" finds the sacred in the everyday. https://sanantonioreview.org/2026/05/25/domestic-sentences-45/ #ProsePoetry #DomesticSentences #LiteraryJournal #SanAntonioReview

A stunning short story about grief, isolation, and a volatile encounter on a mountain road. "Down The Mountain" will stay with you long after the last line. https://sanantonioreview.org/2026/05/24/down-the-mountain/ #LiteraryFiction #ShortStory #RuralLife #SanAntonioReview

A conversation across generations, sharp and tender—"we were robbed of youth / all of us robbed"—unfolds before bedtime in this striking new poem. https://sanantonioreview.org/2026/05/23/bedtime/ #Poetry #CounterCulture #GenerationalDialogue #SanAntonioReview

Volcanoes spit fire and heresies in this stunning poem by turns destructive and generative. "Volcano Climate" clears everything — words, man, time. sanantonioreview.org/2026/05/23/v...

A luminous essay traces stories passed down through generations of women — from Da Vinci's Saint Anne to a grandmother's kitchen in Queens. "Women inherit the words." sanantonioreview.org/2026/05/22/t... #FamilyStories #CreativeNonfiction #Grandmothers #SanAntonioReview

"nothing is real / but the underside of a stone / lifted in joy" — a poem that turns revelation into laughter and light. https://sanantonioreview.org/2026/05/21/lifting-the-stone/ #Poetry #Truth #LiftingTheStone #SanAntonioReview