Mar 25, 2011
Becca Wadlinger
As the resident Scandinavian language speaker here in the Gulf Coast office, I thought I'd let you in on the entertaining taxonomy that exists within the shelves of Swedish superstore IKEA. I began to notice patterns in the furniture names years ago,… 
Mar 22, 2011
Ian Stansel
With it being National Poetry Month, I thought I'd like to ask a truly unfair question: what are the best poems? Some of our editorial staff indulged my whim and got back to me with a few of their favorite, most influential, and best loved pieces. Sam…
Mar 17, 2011
Gulf Coast Online Editor
"Bright, bright, and bright, bright, bright, and bright, bright.
Bright and bright, bright, and bright, bright moon." ¶Myoe, Buddhist Priest, 1173-1232 I've been thinking a lot lately about Japan. I think we all have. Shortly after I heard about the earthquake,…
Mar 13, 2011
Christine Ha
A one-act play I wrote last semester under the tutelage of Mark Medoff was recently read onstage at the University of Houston's Wortham Theater. While primarily a fiction writer, I found playwriting to be an exercise in creating powerful scenes, scenes…
Mar 08, 2011
Becca Wadlinger
If you happen to live around the Houston area, we hope to see you at the fourth annual Houston Indie Book Fest this Saturday (April 2nd) outside the Menil Collection. The book fair starts at 11 a.m. and continues until 5 p.m. There will be live music,…
Mar 04, 2011
Thea Lim
Last week, the internet took a break from the civil war in Libya and the impending nuclear meltdown in Japan to hate on a tween. In case you were doing something important and missed the kerbloffle,1 Rebecca Black is a chirpy thirteen year-old Justin…
Feb 21, 2011
Laura Eve Engel
As someone who does some musical arranging but no original songwriting to speak of, I've been thinking a little bit lately about the weird, interstitial territory of the cover song. Sure, we're all active readers and writers, and on our better days we're…
Feb 16, 2011
Elizabeth Lyons
½Then the Midwest. I have always loved
the loneliness of those midsized cities
strewn along the plains, in them it seems to me my heart would at last be that open field where an entirely new love could snow. -Matthew Zapruder, "Dobby's Sweatshirt" I wonder…
Feb 14, 2011
Samuel Amadon
When we think of Ronald Johnson, we probably think of his erasure Radi os or of his long poem ARK--which is in desperate need of a reissue--but he was also the author of several excellent cookbooks: The Aficionado's Southwestern Cooking--the most comprehensive…
Feb 10, 2011
Becca Wadlinger
Image: The Citizen-Scientist Bands (2010) by Dario Robleto. Image courtesy of Brad Nagar and Reid Sutton Collection. Here's a sneak peek at the cover for Gulf Coast's 25th anniversary issue (Summer/Fall 2011). The issue includes some real rock stars on…