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Contributing Editor POETRY Burning Number Five: Power Plant Poems Cindy Huyser Co-winner of the Blue Horse Press Chapbook Contest, 2014; paperback, 978-0692249963, 36 pgs., $10.00 Reviewed by Barbara Brannon Austin poet Cindy Huyser’s debut chapbook invites readers into a Dantesque world few followers of contemporary poetry have ever witnessed in person: a fifteen-story-tall circa-1960 electric…

Lone Star Book Reviews of Texas books appear weekly at LoneStarLiterary.com Cindy Huyser worked at Holly Street Power Plant in Austin, where she became the first woman to be a power plant control board operator and power plant operations supervisor. She continues to live in Austin, where she now makes her living as a computer…

Dave Parsons is 2011 Texas poet laureate. His latest works are Reaching For Longer Water and Far Out Poems of the ’60s, which he coedited with Wendy Barker. 4.17.2016  An April Evening with Paul Ruffin, 1941–2016 Dave Parsons It was a notable if not historic event: seven Texas state poets laureate traveling to The Woodlands…

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Lone Star Book Reviews of Texas books appear weekly at LoneStarLiterary.com Dave Parsons of Conroe, Texas, has been recipient of many honors and awards, including a National Endowment of Humanities Dante Fellowship to the State University of New York, the French-American Poetry Prize, and the 2006 Baskerville Publisher’s Poetry Prize from TCU for an outstanding…

Michelle Newby is contributing editor at Lone Star Literary Life, reviewer for Foreword Reviews, freelance writer, member of the National Book Critics Circle, and blogger at www.TexasBookLover.com. Her reviews appear or are forthcoming in Pleiades Magazine, Rain Taxi, World Literature Today, South85 Journal, The Review Review, Concho River Review, Monkeybicycle, Mosaic Literary Magazine, Atticus Review,…

National Library Week, April 10 – 16 CounterCurrent Festival, Houston, April 12 – 17 Forrest Fest, Lamesa, April 14 – 16 Poetry at Round Top, April 15 – 17 Story Circle Network 8th Women’s Writing Conference, Austin, April 15 – 17 Texas Institute of Letters Annual Meeting, Austin, April 15 – 16 DEAR Texas, statewide,…

Texas Reads>> archiveGlenn Dromgoole 4.17.16   89 Aggies fought at Bataan, Corregidor With Aggie Muster coming up Thursday, it seems an appropriate time to mention the excellent new book by John A. Adams Jr. — The Fightin’ Texas Aggie Defenders of Bataan & Corregidor (Texas A&M University Press, $30 hardcover). Adams is the author of three…

Texas ReadsGlenn Dromgoole >> archiveDoctor relates coming-of-age love story Dallas ophthalmologist Dr. Rob Tenery has written Chasing the Ponytail ($15.95 paperback), a very readable story about his coming of age in the 1950s and early ’60s in Waxahachie as he pursued the love of his life, Janet Forrest, through high school and college. Rob was…

Austin International Poetry Festival wraps up April 10 Two of Texas’s best-known poets will join a group of headliners of internationally, nationally, and locally recognized poets at the 24th Annual Austin International Poetry Festival, April 7-10, 2016, in Austin. Joaquin Zihuatanejo of Denton (above, right) is an Individual World Poetry Slam champion, a European World…