Voices as Diverse as the Gulf itself.
Founded by Phillip Lopate and Donald Barthelme in 1986, Gulf Coast is a journal of literature, art, and critical art writing, publishing contributors who represent a flow of international cultures, voices, and aesthetics. Through programs and publications, and in collaboration with the University of Houston, Gulf Coast brings consequential art and writing to an engaged audience.
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Features
No Separate Thing Called Nature: An Interview with Richard Powers
Charlotte Wyatt
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author talks to Gulf Coast about trees, the transformative power of storytelling, and how writers might respond—and stay responsive to—the unique demands of this moment in both human- and tree-time. 
Mott Street in July
Xuan Juliana Wang
It did not yet boggle their minds that the insides of those things that fly also look like the insides of those that swim. They had yet to question why the bones of a fish could look like the bones of a kite. They had not known to wonder how far to look back in history for the connection.
From the GC Blog
Dora Malech makes her entrance into experimental poetry
Despy Boutris
To “stet” is the act of making a textual change and then changing it back and so on and so forth. In the spirit of “stetting,” Stet also acts as a means of reinventing language,…
You Are Here: An Interview with Eduardo Portillo
Sheila Scoville
“When I built my first stretcher, it was like finding a big surprise. It let me reinforce what I had been doing with painting, which was playing around with points of tension, ideas…
Martin Riker's Debut is a Modern Recalibration of 1836 Novel Sheppard Lee
Ben Murphy
Samuel Johnson’s Eternal Return demonstrates how beginning with a familiar object of interest (a quirky nineteenth century novel, for instance) can lead—if followed rightly—to…