Art That Heals, Inc., presents Boundless 2016, the official anthology of the 9th Annual Rio Grande Valley International Poetry Festival (www.valleypoetryfest.org). Boundless is an eclectic collection of poetry from around Texas and U.S. and including contributions by poets from the U.K., Albania, and Mexico.For the first time ever, a Youth Anthology is also included!The Rio Grande Valley International Poetry Festival (V.I.P.F.) is held annually in deep south Texas. #VIPF2016

Boundless 2016: The Anthology of the Rio Grande Valley International Poetry Festival

Literature & Fiction

VIDAURRE, EDWARD

Hoerth, Katherine

Elliot, Sharon

Galván Rodríguez, Odilia

Peña, Laura

Ellis, Kelly Ann

Poetry

El Zarape Press

Boundless Poetry 2015: The Anthology of the Rio Grande Valley International Poetry Festival

García Ordaz, Daniel

These are poems that lovers of poetry will much admire, fans of stories will enjoy, and poets will find astonishing for the poetic mastery in the integration of form and meaning. Katherine Hoerth is a lyric poet of anecdotes and stories. Rather than tell a story her poems immerse readers in it with images speaking to all five senses. Open the book to any page and you will find the richness of her imagery. Here are samples from 5 random pages: the reader can experience the taste of pomegranate, smell the odor of spritzed perfume, feel the sunbaked warmth of a rock, and hear a birdsong. Often Hoerth's images become more vivid for their mixing, for their surprising synesthesia. Adding to the lyrical effect of the masterful use of imagery are the sounds. Most lines are blank verse, a subtle, musical form that in Hoerth's hands enhances the words rather than intruding upon them. In these pages the poet loans us her remarkable sensibilities so we can experience her world, and if we are wise, we can apply her sensual wisdom to new examinations of our own lives.

Goddess Wears Cowboy Boots

Lamar University Press

Award-winning poet Katherine Hoerth's 'The Lost Chronicles of Slue Foot Sue' opens with a poem presenting the birth of a wild Texas red-headed woman who springs full-grown from an ear of corn. She rides away--no doubt on one of those quarter horses on the cover--to vanish in the distance on the High Plains of Texas with the skyline of Amarillo on the horizon. Katherine Hoerth's vision of mythical women stretches to the moon and back. These giantesses rollick, gallop, swim, sass and morph, cutting their own paths before the eyes of astonished men. Experiencing the antics of such mega-women as Slue Foot Sue, Lobo Girl, and Serena finds us re-aware of the ancient myth-making practice and delighting in Hoerth's imaginative flair for exercising the art. Her womenfolk tickle our fancy with a giant feather.

The Lost Chronicles of Slue Foot Sue: And Other Tales of the Legendary

Angelina River Press

Review\n“These poems rooted in East Texas capture the complexities of living there—the love and the loss, the pines and the refineries—the beauty, sure, but also the enduring cost.” 
—Michael Shewmaker\n“Do not sleep on this collection. Katherine Hoerth’s latest work here, in Flare Stacks in Full Bloom is a tightly threaded trip across all things Texas. Katherine captures every ecosystem, every breath and bloom and blaring horn that lays along the South and East parts of Texas. This collection draws you into Beaumont, into the Rio Grande Valley, into the heart of Harvey, into the memory of floods and immigration check-points. Katherine fills her gas tank and takes you with her. She feeds you ‘an eternity of sweetness.’ These poems call me back to all the places I have known and never knew. This collection quietly beckons you to stay still in the light of a refinery flare, to stay still in the sunlight, watching nature still flourish in between highways and concrete. Katherine’s energy in this collection serves to remind the reader that we are all migrants, that we are always moving, toward something better, away from being prey. This collection sings the truth about the dusty world we live in, but celebrates all the green, all the good – ‘You can't help but be lovely in a field like this...’” 
—Lupe Mendez, author of Why I Am Like Tequila (Willow Books, 2019), 2022 Texas Poet Laureate\n“We live in a world rich with subline ironies and many are unseen or ignored. Hoerth’s true poet’s eye reveals them to us here in a collection of ingeniously crafted pastoral poems, gifting us with the compelling detailed images of the oxymoronic environment of the Gulf Coast, East Texas, where, flame comes into existence/blue with desire, flare stacks erect/like a temple, congregations of birds/baptize themselves as the sprinklers click on, fresh tortillas de harina,/scents of sweet café de olla,/rising from the corner gas stations/like incense from an altar,flares burn bright…no miracle/of nature, but of our machinery. /The poet watch’s the sunset all night long, imagining the hum of flame is birdsong, where we find, the dulcet breath of magnolia and gasoline, and a reprieve scented with pumpkin spice/and benzene. After reading these poems, the reader might imagine Thoreau in a cabin on the coast of East Texas.” 
—Dave Parsons, 2011 Texas State Poet Laureate, author of Reaching For Longer Water\nFlare Stacks in Full Bloom is a collection of eco-feminist poetry set in southeast Texas. This region, sometimes called “Cancer Alley,” is home to the nation’s largest oil refinery. It has also been on the front lines of climate disasters such as Hurricane Harvey, the historic flooding from Tropical Storm Imelda, and just last year, Hurricanes Laura and Delta. It’s a region that feels the tension of climate change: economically, it is dependent on the oil industry, the same industry that poisons its citizens and threatens its lands existence as sea levels rise. Flare Stacks in Full Bloom explores this tension through a chronicle of Hurricane Harvey—before, during, and after the storm, through formal poetry (sonnets, villanelles, and blank verse narratives).\nfrom "Flare Stack Eden" 
You smell it like a snake, from miles away— 
this Eden made of benzene, naphthalene 
and gasoline. The smokestack garden never 
rests. It works through day and night, like any 
forest does. It turns the blood of earth 
into the fuel that makes it sing this dusk 
chorus of whistles, bells, and whooshing flame. 
You look up, imagining these towers 
as tupelo trees that scrape the sky. 
All around you, pipelines form a labyrinth, 
meandering like streams for endless miles.\nThe whistle blows like Bachman’s sparrow’s song, 
beckons your return as you slip on 
your work boots once again to toil through 
the nightshift, promising a world of green. 
Suddenly, a flare stack blooms as quickly 
as a burst of evening primrose, fills 
the sky with something almost beautiful 
in vibran

Flare Stacks in Full Bloom: Poems (The Margaret Lea Houston Series)

Texas Review Press

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