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Victor Clevenger hopes for the more exciting side of death, as he spends his days in a Madhouse and his nights writing poetry. He sleeps with his second ex-wife and raises his six children in a small...

Reading Al Ortolani always feels like visiting a good friend who never runs out of stories to tell. Controlled Burn adds a new element to the alchemy, confronting politics more directly than in past...

Author: Nancy KriegPublisher: Spartan PressPublication Date: Aug 19, 2021Number of Pages: 84 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1952411637ISBN-13: 9781952411632

Creature WayAuthor: Harley ElliotPublisher: Spartan PressPublication Date: Sep 12, 2020Number of Pages: 94 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1952411297ISBN-13: 9781952411298

Benjamin Kuzemka is from suburban Chicago. He spent the rst part of his twenties on a handful of continents and then joined a religious order. He le seminary, met a girl, and now lives in Saint...

Dead Ends, Detours, Blind Curves And A Roundabout Road HomeAuthor: Ed TatoPublisher: Spartan PressPublication Date: July 30, 2021Number of Pages: 154 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

Author: William SheldonPublisher: Spartan PressPublication Date: March 18, 2021Number of Pages: 84 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1952411467ISBN-13: 9781952411465

DirtspellAuthor: Maia CarlsonPublisher: Spartan PressPublication Date: December 06, 2019Number of Pages: 124 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1950380637ISBN-13: 9781950380633

I am a poet with two books of poetry titled Stewed Soul that was published in 2008 and On the Edge of Urban that was published in 2013. I have been writing professionally for 18 years, and my poems...

Catherine Strayhall's debut is one of generations of joys and losses, of memories firmly rooted by place. Strayhall has a dexterous range of forms that she uses to explore the legacy of World Wars,...

Drinking Guinness With The DeadAuthor: Justin HammPublisher: Spartan PressPublication Date: Feb 01, 2022Number of Pages: 184 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1952411858ISBN-13:...

Jim Hanson's Endless Journey is at once a travelogue and guidebook of trips down "Cinderella paths" and rivers both roaring and calm, along train tracks and online. In his poems, Hanson brings us...

Victor Clevenger is a writer whose work I genuinely get excited to read. He has a unique voice that he seamlessly reinvents time and time again, that always remains Clevenger. Every Angel in Heaven...

Author: MacKenzie ThornPublisher: Spartan PressPublication Date: January 24, 2020Number of Pages: 66 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1950380807ISBN-13: 9781950380800

The Man Who Spoke to Ghosts The Man who Spoke to Ghosts went deaf, at least that's what he told me under the bridge warmed by cheap wine and Sterno flame. "You know you can't drink that shit to get...

Cameron Morse lives with his wife Lili and son Theodore in Blue Springs, Missouri. He was diagnosed with a glioblas- toma in 2014. With a 14.6 month life expectancy, he entered the Creative Writing...

Antony V. Plocido (Tony) was born in Minneapolis, MN. He's been writing poetry since he was a child. In 2011, he decided to move to Kansas City to further expand his poetry. He published his first...

When my three sons left for college, I entered the MFA program at Wichita State University. I entered the buzz saw of critique workshops full of hope. However, after a few weeks I planned to drop out...

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg, Ph.D., the 2009-13 Kansas Poet Laureate is the author of over two dozen books, including most recently Miriam's Well, a novel; Every- day Magic; and the award-winning Chasing...

Al Ortolani's newest collection of poetry, On the Chicopee Spur, was released from New York Quarterly Books in 2018. How Wally Lost His Thumb and the Boy Scouts Became Cannibals, a mix of old and new...

Daniel W. Wright's latest book of poetry, From Obscurity to Oblivion: Collected Poems 2008-2017, stands as a necessary prequel to his established oeuvre. If his previous poetic works were Wright's...

Melvin Litton's stories have appeared in Mobius, Foliate Oak, Floyd County Moonshine, Pif, Chiron Review, First Intensity, with poetry in Broadkill Review and The Stray Branch. He has two published...

Silvia Kofler is a widely published poet, translator, educator, and occasional actor who likes to read her work and translations in many places. She has read at New York's Poet's House, the...

The Gasconade Review is a literary and arts publication based out of the Osage Arts Community (http: //osageac.org/), located on the Gasconade River, just outside of Belle, Missouri. It appears twice...

"For many years now Brett Lars Underwood has been the kind carnival barker of St. Louis poetry. Singing his city's praises while judging literary chainsaws in his mind. For me, his work has yet to...

Author's Notes on Second Edition: Before going to West Point, Dwight D. Eisenhower took a job at a local creamery. This was also where his father worked as a refrigeration engineer. A portion of his...

Ken Gierke is a retired truck driver, transplanted to Missouri from Western New York. After only ten years here, he is actually coming to think of Missouri as home, in spite of muddy water and a...

Stephen Johnson is a Senior Lecturer in the English Department at the University of Kansas. He has published in Puerto del Sol, Coal City Review, Physics of Context, Mikro- kosmos, and the Kansas...

In his collection Heron Spirit, Ken Gierke invites us to walk with him and immerse ourselves in nature. His gentle poems, with their keen observation of details and strong sense of place, let us...

Author: Ellen PearcePublisher: Spartan PressPublication Date: December 04, 2019Number of Pages: 76 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1950380742ISBN-13: 9781950380749