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Al Ortolani's poetry has appeared in journals such as Rattle, Prairie Schooner, and Tar River Poetry. His newest collection, On the Chicopee Spur, has just been released from New York Quarterly Books...

In the SkinAuthor: Patricia TraxlerPublisher: Spartan PressPublication Date: May 05, 2020Number of Pages: 200 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 195038098XISBN-13: 9781950380985

Jackie Magnuson Ash grew up in Saline County, on a medium-sized farm, surrounded by a family of readers. After a college education, she expected to weave the written word into the fabric of marriage...

Author: Mike JamesPublisher: Spartan PressPublication Date: January 27, 2020Number of Pages: 66 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1950380866ISBN-13: 9781950380862

JUST SHY OF STARS is Annette Billings' eagerly awaited third book. This collection of poetry reads like a journey across the continuum of human emotion with stops at the most poignant places in life...

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...

A side-e ect of the military industrial complex, Jameson Bayles was born at a hospital at Forbes Field AFB just south of Topeka, KS. By the age of eighteen, Jameson had participated in a refueling...

Lies I've Heard or Told is the fourteenth collection of poems published by Michael Poage. He was born in Virginia but has lived and traveled across the U.S. as well as Europe, the Middle East, Egypt,...

Sean Arnold is a poet, writer and visual artist residing in South Saint Louis, Missouri. He graduated from Webster University in 2015 with a degree in Creative Writing where he was poetry editor of...

Author: Daniel W. WrightPublisher: Spartan PressPublication Date: January 27, 2021Number of Pages: 90 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1952411459ISBN-13: 9781952411458

LuckhoundAuthor: Timothy TarkellyPublisher: Spartan PressPublication Date: Mar 08, 2020Number of Pages: 106 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1950380912ISBN-13: 9781950380916

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...

Jim McGowin does art but keeps a day job. He has been published in Chance Operations, e UCity Review, Rusty Truck, e Gasconade Review and has authored several chapbooks. He lives in St. Louis, MO...

Lori Brack's Kansas roots coil down to her mother's Barton County homestead and her father's Russian- German immigrant parents. Her work background includes newspaper journalism, contemporary art...

Brett Lars Underwood is a bartender and a gadabout who writes, promotes and produces happenings and mishaps in St. Louis. Once upon a time, he co-published a 'zine en- titled Lick My Squaggle Noose,...

Karl Dean, from the Central Great Plains along the Smoky Hill River, perceived a vision perusing through an old cellar at the impressionable age of seven, mani-festing this insightful phantasm into...

Author: Troy SchoultzPublisher: Spartan PressPublication Date: December 09, 2019Number of Pages: 70 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1950380750ISBN-13: 9781950380756

With undeniable intelligence, wit, and plenty of dark humor, Justin Hamm wrestles with mortality in his latest chapbook, O Death. Eschewing easy answers, these poems take a decidedly individualistic...

Frank Higgins is a playwright and poet. His plays Black Pearl Sings!, The Sweet By'n'By and Gunplay: A Play About America, which had scenes read on Capitol Hill, have been produced around the country...

The depth of tragedy is keenly felt in Bargen's poem marking the day of the Russian invasion: February 24th, 2022. The Cost of a Flower." In this early piece, we meet an old woman questioning a...

During my time as Missouri's 6th Poet Laureate, I have had two major goals. The first has been to put poetry into the hands and ears of Missourians who don't usually read poetry or go to poetry...

Patricia Traxler is an award-winning poet, essayist, and fiction writer. A two-time Bunting Poetry Fellow at Radcliffe, she also served as Hugo Poet at the University of Montana, Thurber Poet at Ohio...

Jeanette Powers presents her book Perfectly Good Muses: the collected apologies of Jeanette Powers in the Midtown Poets series by Spartan Press. Poems fall in love, out of love and through it. Odes...

Gary Lechliter's work has recently appeared in many poetry journals and anthologies. He has published three full-length books of poetry. His newest book Off the Beaten Path is published by Woodley...

James P. McNamara is a Kansas City based poet. His work has appeared, but sometimes it doesn't. He has seen the ocean once and mountains twice. You can learn more about him on outhereincarcountry...

Jas Abramowitz is a writer, actor, and performance poet. He is originally from Kansas City, MO and spent seven years in Chicago, IL before moving to Jacksonville, Florida in 2015. His poetry...

Creed Shepard's poems have been published in Smelt Money, Kaw Vally Independent, Beecher's, Hypocrite Reader and more. He lives in Lawrence, Kansas and works various odd general labor jobs to...

Matthew "Chigger" Haines is a language artist living in the American Midwest. He hosts the collaborative feature Free Chigger Matthews Presents, teaches poetry workshops for all ages, and is an...

Mark Matzeder is a Nomad, fading in and out of landscapes like a glitchy hologram or psilocybin dream. An officer's son, Mark spent his early life looking at the interiors of sundry post housing...

Rough-Cut ElegiesAuthor: Sharon Feltman, Jason RybergPublisher: Spartan PressPublication Date: May 28, 2024Number of Pages: NA pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1958182737ISBN-13:...