Oxford American # 87, Winter 2014

POINTS SOUTH

What's the Matter Now, by Tom Maxwell

Sundown Man, by Nathan Salsburg

Eavesdropping on History, by Cynthia Shearer

It's Got Ahold of Me, by Dom Flemons

On The X, by Gene Fowler

An American Sound, by Ada Limón

The Basics of Love, a story by Bret Anthony Johnston

Occurrence at Deep Ellum, by Christopher C. King

That Drifting Place, by Rachel Monroe

Texas Calling, by Alex Rawls

Born Warblin', by Aaron Alford

True Love Will Find You In the End, by Louis Black

Don't Sex With East Texas, by Harrison Scott Key

Live at the Continental Club, by Bill Bentley

On the Road with the Texas Tornado, by James BigBoy Medlin

FEATURES

She's About a Mover
by Margaret Moser

Old School Poet of the World
by Tamara Saviano

Watching Willie's Back
by Joe Nick Patoski

Searching For LA Perdida
by Michelle García

Jam Nothin' But That Screw
by Amanda Petrusich

Sympathy for the Devil
by Preston Lauterbach

The Music of Texas
by Rick Clark

POETRY

Cowboys vs. Texans
by John Poch

We Always Needed You
by Naomi Shihab Nye

In Defense of Poetry Voice
by David Tomas Martinez



Art by: Jim McGuire, Walker Pickering, Kevin Greenblat, Josh Verduzco, Bruce Jackson, Sandy Carson, Lippe Studio, Armando Alvarez, Jon Flaming, Petra Péterffy, Tracy Anne Hart, Allison V. Smith, James H. Evans, Fred Woodward, Kim Cadmus Owens, Baron Wolman, Ken Hoge, Marc Burckhardt, David Gahr, Dave Anderson, Eleanor Davis, El Franco Lee II, Ben Tecumseh DeSoto, Henry Horenstein

Cover: Guy and Susanna Clark, 1975, by Jim McGuire, www.nashvilleportraits.com