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.
Gulf Coast is a student-run non-profit entity. To learn more, see our masthead and executive board information here.
When we think about inheritance, we tend to think about the tangible: property, titles, investments. Maybe jewelry, cars, or antique furniture. Or it can refer to a collection of traits: eye color, blood type, a predisposition to a health condition. But what about the things that evade the exact, the defined? The things that course through our blood and sway how we move through the world like an invisible force, immune to clear-cut language?
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