Meadowlark

45 authors representing 31 Kansas counties share the personal stories of individuals embedded in the Kansas landscape, and stories that examine our lives as Kansans and our communities.Author: Caryn...

Winner of The Birdy Poetry Prize, by Meadowlark-- 2019. There is a worldliness in these poems, the kind of grit that accompanies a strong heart. There's awareness--of the self, of the world. And the...

James Kenyon, a born storyteller, writes an account of growing up in 1950s rural America that will make a reader laugh, smile, and occasionally shed a tear. As a young farm boy raised on the high...

Author: Jerilynn Jones HenriksonPublisher: MeadowlarkPublication Date: Nov 01, 2020Number of Pages: 170 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1734247789ISBN-13: 9781734247787

The author recounts details of Lincoln College campus burglaries and murders in the 1970's.Author: Mike HartnettPublisher: MeadowlarkPublication Date: Sep 16, 2019Number of Pages: 176 pagesLanguage:...

A minute-by-minute detail of the crash of Continental Flight 11 in May 1962, on the Iowa/Missouri border.Author: Enfys McMurryPublisher: MeadowlarkPublication Date: Feb 24, 2024Number of Pages: NA...

Driving Together is Tyler Robert Sheldon's first full-length poetry collection, centering on his upbringing in Kansas, his relationship with (and marriage to) his artist love, and the death of his...

Everlasting: PoemsAuthor: Arlice W DavenportPublisher: MeadowlarkPublication Date: Aug 18, 2021Number of Pages: 114 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1736223275ISBN-13: 9781736223277

Duane L. Herrmann's family has lived in Kansas since the 1860s. His poetry celebrates the prairie and life on the prairie. This collection consists of new unpublished poems, published but previously...

In Book 5 of the Pete Stone Private Investigator series, an indefatigable Wichita detective, oft-champion of the downtrodden, is compelled to take on a case to prove the innocence of a shell-shocked...

Even though he was often vastly outnumbered by enemies on the outside and by demons on the inside, Antonio Sanchez-Day took on life. He fought against racism as a boy, fought against family troubles,...

Kansas PoemsAuthor: Brian DaldorphPublisher: MeadowlarkPublication Date: January 15, 2021Number of Pages: 102 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1736223208ISBN-13: 9781736223208

Knowing Is A Branching TrailAuthor: Alison HicksPublisher: MeadowlarkPublication Date: September 14, 2021Number of Pages: 94 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1736223267ISBN-13:...

Kevin Raba's new collection of poems and stories, Like Buddha-Calm Bird, improves on and riffs off the variable rhythms of the stories we create, revise, and live. Writing the music inherent in...

More Than Words: Poems & SketchesAuthor: Kevin RabasPublisher: MeadowlarkPublication Date: February 18, 2021Number of Pages: 136 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1736223216ISBN-13:...

Remembering Martha turns family history and lore into story. Martha grew up in the small town of Neosho Rapids, Kansas, at the turn of the 20th century. This book is an invitation to explore prairie...

Selected Poems: 2000-2020Author: Jc MehtaPublisher: MeadowlarkPublication Date: January 13, 2021Number of Pages: 70 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1734247754ISBN-13: 9781734247756

Setting the Waves on FireAuthor: Arlice W DavenportPublisher: MeadowlarkPublication Date: Oct 06, 2020Number of Pages: 122 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1734247770ISBN-13:...

Book II of the Pete Stone, Private Investigator Series: When a cop killer strikes Wichita, Pete Stone, Private Investigator, is on the case. He has to be. He wakes up in jail, battered and bruised...

Nothing dies for good in Songs for Ghosts, Julie Valin's second poetry collection. In plainspoken and free verse rock 'n' roll style, Valin celebrates the moments that make and break us, the travels...

From Eat Fast: My father, who brought home good money from his job at the site, kept us well fed, told us to get "desk jobs," urged us to "study up," fattened, lost his mind slumped in blue TV light...

Stage Whispers speaks from on, off, below, and above the stage of life, as well as the stages of lives we travel, showing us how to hear what we have to say to the world and what the world is saying...

James Kenyon recalls his days in veterinary practice. From heartwarming to heartbreaking, Kenyon writes of his care for beloved family pets, livestock, and their human caretakers.Author: James...

Their father's near-fatal accident brings Annie & Michael home to the Bar W ranch. Secrets are unearthed. Truths are told. Consequences are faced.Author: Robert RebeinPublisher: MeadowlarkPublication...

This Body Is Never at Rest: New and Selected Poems features 30 years of Bart Edelman's explorations of a multitude of perspectives, a wide range of lifetime experiences. The collection includes 46...

Pete Stone hadn't always been a private eye. He'd lost his dairy business at the toss of a coin when the depression hit. His children grew up, as children do, and his wife left him for a chinchilla...

Turkey Vulture is Zachary Lundgren's debut poetry collection and the winner of the 2023 Birdy Poetry Prize. These poems share a lesson on how everything is temporary, though we can refuse to let...

Wisdom and wit--and just a hint of sass--underlie this first published collection of poetry by Ruth Maus. In Valentine, a juxtaposition of Kansas native personality and Smith College academic oozes...

With wildly-original images, sparkling wit, and a voice all her own, Olive writes poetry of expansive courage and vision, tipping over the edge of dreams we can remember without understanding, and...