Readers can now access the PDF version of El Portal’s Spring 2016 issue. Click on the image above to access the PDF file. If you have any questions about the Spring 2016 issue, please feel free to contact the editor at el.portal@enmu.edu.
Full List of Contributors:
Phillip Parotti “Antiquarian Mishaps”
Stephen Cloud “Pop Runs Out of Gas, and Mom Says I Told You So”
Paula Friedman “Photograph, Chavez Ravine: 1948: Girl Brushing Sister’s Hair”
Paula Friedman “Little Mexico”
Kristin Kaz “on the train the people wave at you”
Gabriella Garofalo “She hurled you to a land where”
Lucas Smith “Orange County, Viceroyalty of New Spain, 2002 A.D.”
Gloria Keeley “Behind the House”
Tracie Campbell “Shattered Dishes, Broken Lives”
Steve Bellin-Oka “Late April Song”
Steve Bellin-Oka “San Francisco, June 1999”
Ann Howells “Where Tumbleweed Go to Die”
Ann Howells “Dauber”
Carla Ruiz “Untitled 1”
Carla Ruiz “Untitled 2”
Fawn Hon-Hinton “Flake”
Tasha Vice “Puddles on the Plains”
Tasha Vice “South Florida Mill”
Samantha Pilecki “An Idle Mind”
Lowell Jaeger “Pain”
Lowell Jaeger “At the County Library Used Book Sale Fund-Raiser”
Elena Botts “if you are walking in the garden”
Jack Buck “The History of Furniture and Wood Flooring in East Texas”
Mark Trechock “Directions”
Mark Trechock “Hash Browns”
John Walser “A Love Supreme”
John Walser “Telemachus”
Jason Namey “And the Clay Was Not Redder”
Atri Majumder “Immature”
Atri Majumder “Frozen Whirl”
Starlin Waters “One would think a fountain would have”
Chelsea Morse “Drought”
El Portal Literary Journal 
I absolutely LOVE the front and back cover. Thank you so much for including my poem, “Behind The House”.
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We are extremely pleased with how the issue turned out. Thank you for your contribution!
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