Spartan Press

Stefene Russell is a St. Louis-based poet, writer, editor and actor. She is a member of Poetry Scores, an arts collective dedicated to translating poetry into other media, including music, visual...

Denise Low, second Kansas Poet Laureate, is award-winning author of 25 books of prose and poetry, including The Turtle's Beating Heart: One Family's Story of Lenape Survival (University of Nebraska);...

"Sometimes reading Bill Gainer's poems is like finding a note full of familiar sounding tales left on a barstool. The whole story is there. Change the names, and it could be yours. You know the girl...

Author: Bill GainerPublisher: Spartan PressPublication Date: Oct 28, 2021Number of Pages: 236 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1952411696ISBN-13: 9781952411694

James Benger has written a bunch of stuff. Some of it has even been published in print and on the interwebs. He is the resident slacker on the Board of Directors of the Writers Place, and is the most...

Michael Poage was born in Virginia and has lived in New England, California, Montana and overseas in Latvia and Bosnia and Herzegovina. He has ten collections of poems published prior to this new...

Dear Ramon, I had thought to be buried together on the old farm, beneath the cottonwoods, but her divorce attorney came between us in ways difficult for a sensative man to ignore: I found a can of...

All Around CowboyAuthor: Scot YoungPublisher: Spartan PressPublication Date: February 24, 2021Number of Pages: 146 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 195241153XISBN-13: 9781952411533

Kevin Rabas chairs the Department of English, Modern Languages, and Journalism at Emporia State and leads the poetry and playwriting tracks. He has eight books, includ- ing Bird's Horn, Lisa's Flying...

Author: Blake Edward HamiltonPublisher: Spartan PressPublication Date: January 07, 2020Number of Pages: 70 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1950380718ISBN-13: 9781950380718

Roy J. Beckemeyer is a retired engineer and scientific journal editor who lives in Wichita, Kansas. He currently studies the Paleozoic insect fossils of Alabama, Kansas, and Oklahoma, and writes...

"With a sober, unflinching eye, poet Scot Young unfurls sketch after sketch of the quiet awe of the country life, the animal and plant kingdom at odds with barbed wire and rusty trucks emphasizing...

"AMERICAN TELEVISION is a radical deconstruction of all that is red, white, and blue. J.I.B. takes the American myth and pulls you behind its curtain to show you the machination of empire and class-...

An Incident That Might Lead to SomethingAuthor: Michael PoagePublisher: Spartan PressPublication Date: Mar 09, 2020Number of Pages: 90 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

Award winning poet Dan Pohl lives in Moundridge, Kansas, and instructs English composition at Hutchinson Community College. Pohl, along with his daughter Jessie, an artist who graduated from Bethel...

Steve Gerson delivers brilliantly etched vignettes of America's psyche, soul, and temperament in his fourth collection of lyrical poetry and poetic prose. Once more, in unsurpassed fashion, he...

Robert L. Dean, Jr.'s work has appeared in Flint Hills Review, I-70 Review, The Ekphrastic Review, Illya's Honey, Red River Review, River City Poetry, Heartland! Poetry of Love, Resistance &...

Author: Zara LisbonPublisher: Spartan PressPublication Date: March 15, 2021Number of Pages: 102 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1952411564ISBN-13: 9781952411564

Beggar's SongbookAuthor: Nathanael StoltePublisher: Spartan PressPublication Date: Jul 15, 2020Number of Pages: 124 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 195241122XISBN-13: 9781952411229

"Steve Brisendine is a guide ever pushing with a gentle urgency necessary to guide somnambulists to safety in these fitful nights. Restlessly toss and turn through the sheets of this surreal...

There is much to treasure in Birds of Flight, Brenda Linkeman's latest thought-provoking book of poems. Apropos of our current century's anxiety of species survival, she delineates the need for...

Joseph Anthony Davis has lived most of his life in Kansas City, Mo, where he attended Bishop Hogan High School and went on to somehow con(vince) the monks and nuns and Benedictine College in...

RC Patterson is a St. Louis resident. He attained a master's in Philosophy from the University of Missouri St. Louis. RC Patterson is an Adjunct professor at Harris-Stowe State University. He has six...

Author: Wayne F BurkePublisher: Spartan PressPublication Date: March 16, 2021Number of Pages: 234 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1952411572ISBN-13: 9781952411571

Whitman wrote who touches this book touches a man." When we pick up Rick Christiansen's powerful and elegant Bone Fragments, we also touch a man's history and character. The poems are shaped by...

Americana songwriter and Kansas-City-based storyteller K.W. Peery is the author of five poetry collections: Tales of a Receding Hairline; Purgatory; Wicked Rhythm; Ozark Howler; Gallatin Gallows...

Bus StopAuthor: Waco PorterPublisher: Spartan PressPublication Date: Apr 14, 2020Number of Pages: 100 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1952411084ISBN-13: 9781952411083

I was born and raised in New York City, attending the public schools there--a pretty typical kid, gabby and obnoxious, who loved to play with his friends. But when I was eight years old, my...

Glenn North is currently serving as a consultant for Education and Community Programs at the Black Archives of Mid America while also pursuing an MFA in Creative Writing at the University of Missouri...

Boyd Bauman grew up on a small ranch south of the town of Bern, Kansas (population 200). His dad was a storyteller and his mom the family scribe. Grist for the mill included stints as a flight...