I am pleased to announce that Strange Horizons will be reprinting my science fiction short story “Winds That Stir Vermilion Sands” on June 29. Curating the tale will be the fabulous author and journalist Sabrina Vourvoulias.
Originally published in the 2015 Texas Poetry Calendar. The ghost of the moon Trembles upon the river, Its pallor cracked and veined By the oblique shadows of branches— Ebony and mesquite, grasping at darkness. Like a lunar fragment A white form floats in those mangling waters— A face obscured by…
Yesterday’s Laredo Morning Times featured English and Spanish articles on my school visits and writing.
Saiba was a Zen Buddhist monk who wrote this jisei or death haiku as he sensed his end approach in the fall of 1858. He finally died on the night of the harvest moon. So I’ll just scoot my pillow closer to the full autumn moon. —Translated by David Bowles,…
My short story “Wildcat” has been published in issue 72 of Apex Magazine. You can read it on-line here.
Nozawa Bonchō was born in the city of Kanazawa in Japan’s Ishikawa Prefecture. Though he worked most of his life as a doctor in Kyoto, Bonchō never made much money. He became one of Matsuo Bashō’s foremost disciples, which saved him when he was convicted of smuggling: due to his…
Ernest Hogan has lots of great things to say about The Smoking Mirror in this week’s Chicanonáutica at La Bloga.
Author and editor Sabrina Vourvoulias recently interviewed me for the magazine Al Día. Head over to the website to check out our discussion of YA Latino literature: http://aldianews.com/articles/culture/literature/meet-david-bowles-author-smoking-mirror/38586
This poem was previously published in the 2014 edition of Huizache and in the collection Shattering and Bricolage. During the 80s I lived in the projects, Section 8 housing, a block of apartments Facing the Pharr Community Center. Dad had abandoned us. I was sixteen, Sleeping on pallets with Matthew…
My poem “The Wall” will be appearing in The Thing Itself, the literary journal of Our Lady of the Lake University in San Antonio.
