Austin Downtown Arts: Non-fiction

Nonfiction and essays A-L / M-Z

Marsha A. Gomez by Bridget Gomez Day
In Memorium, December 24, 1951 to September 29, 1998

Marsha A. Gomez by Anoa Monsho
Words can reveal only fragments and facets of Marsha A. Gomez, so multi-layered, so thick with life was she.

Moving On by Lucy Shaw
I think I'm in a stage in my life where things are just now starting to get complicated. Now I feel like everything I do (or don't do) has consequences.

Magnetism by Justin Davis
Austin: you're too hot and congested. You're a nasty little polluted college town turned down a one-way dead-end alley named after a deceased poet.

On Bees and Wasps by Paul Klemperer
If you had to choose, which would you rather be, a honeybee or a wasp?

Podium by stant
I stand at the podium and read my work. I hate poetry.

Someone in Graceland Loves Me by Jenna Colley
There's something about West Texas that I always hated as a kid. Maybe it was all the creepy billboards pushing Jesus to passersby or the perverted truckers glaring into the back seat at me and my brother. Or maybe it was the fact that my family was always driving somewhere, but never staying.

Use This One Instead by Jodi Keeling
Whenever life gets to be too much I find refuge in seeing it all slowly disappear from view.

A White Woman Looks at Her Own Black History by Courtenay Nearburg
I am a white woman, 26, a native Texan of English / German / French-Alsatian / Cherokee Indian descent. My grandfathers were white second-generation immigrants. They were good men, they worked hard, they worked with their hands.

Wish You Were Here by Justin Davis
When I began to play I cried for the beauty we could create and the beauty that would end when I closed the case. I played like it was a last request for a life-time, and it might be.