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As has been amply evidenced in his previous works, Steve Brisendine has the uncanny ability to put those unfathomable emotions which are germinated by the uncertainty of life into the perfect words...

Solving for XAuthor: Maryfrances WagnerPublisher: Spartan PressPublication Date: Apr 11, 2022Number of Pages: 96 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1952411971ISBN-13: 9781952411977

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...

Son Of Eve & Other TalesAuthor: Melvin LittonPublisher: Spartan PressPublication Date: Dec 13, 2021Number of Pages: 232 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1952411912ISBN-13:...

Son Of Eve & Other Tales - 9781950380640Author: Melvin LittonPublisher: Spartan PressPublication Date: Mar 29, 2020Number of Pages: 228 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

Rob's work is a looking glass that opens to his lived experience. His poems tug at the heart of the reader, and ask poignant questions that only a poet who has lived many lives can ask. What I am...

Matthew Porubsky's Stand in Old Light will hover / heart-like" with me for a long time. My immediate reverence for these poems almost startled me, as the experience of reading them reminded me of the...

Steven H. Bridgens Born: Kansas City, Missouri, Planet Earth, 1949, the year of the first Soviet nuclear test Parents: healers, one trod the dark path and one the light Siblings: one of each, both...

Strange Days, Stranger Nights : The Gasconade Review Presents:Author: Jason Ryberg, John DorseyPublisher: Spartan PressPublication Date: Oct 16, 2020Number of Pages: 216 pagesLanguage:...

Daniel W. Wright is an award-nominated poet and fiction writer. He most recently wrote the foreword for Sacred Decay: The Art of Lauren Marx (Dark Horse, 2021). He is the author of eight collections...

Swimming ShelterAuthor: Al OrtolaniPublisher: Spartan PressPublication Date: Dec 16, 2020Number of Pages: 188 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1952411394ISBN-13: 9781952411397

Cameron Morse was diagnosed with a glioblastoma in 2014. With a 14.6 month life expectancy, he entered the Creative Writing program at the University of Missouri--Kansas City and, in 2018, graduated...

Linzi Garcia can be found frolicking through sunflower fields, cemeteries, and bars across the states. She has been featured in Treading Unique Paths: Young Writers Anthol-ogy (VerbalEyze Press,...

Author: Denmark LainePublisher: Spartan PressPublication Date: April 29, 2021Number of Pages: 106 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1952411602ISBN-13: 9781952411601

"I found that we may have some similarities in our backgrounds and why we write poetry. It's cathartic and therapeutic for you and your writings offers the reader the same opportunity for catharsis...

Love and death, passion and sex, the mysteries of the cosmos - Alexej Savreux explores all these ideas and more in The Ballad of Lady Vigilance, his towering new collection. Savreux's powerful...

The Cosmic Lost & Found If there's a cosmic lost and found and you know where to find it then you know where I'll be heaped on top of a pile of discarded whatevers lost gloves and scarves and hats an...

The Butcher Son would like to blame the following people for bringing this book into existence: The Butcher and the Butcher Lady, Stephen Johnson, Albert Goldbarth, Jason Ryberg. Thanks. A few of the...

The Fire Enlightening is comprised of nine poems that narrate a journey of philosophic self-discovery, populated with logical and chaotic conceptual metaphor, to bridge a synthesis between the world...

Joseph Sulier was born and raised in the simple poverty of Fenton Missouri and currently resides in the city of St. Louis. Sulier has been published in several literary journals including 52nd City,...

When I was appointed the first Poet Laureate of Belle. MO at the end of 2016, my first order of business, in addition to having community readings, was to create a literary publication that the city...

The Gasconade Review Presents: Strange Gods Of The PrairieAuthor: Jason Ryberg, John DorseyPublisher: Spartan PressPublication Date: 10-Aug-21Number of Pages: 250 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

An Idiot's Sonnet by the Sea] With me you walk through brutal days both of us confined to our separate minds. While netted, trapped within these crabbed lines, I thought of you and those nights in...

Author: Patricia LawsonPublisher: Spartan PressPublication Date: June 07, 2021Number of Pages: 118 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1952411416ISBN-13: 9781952411410

"Sharon SingingMoon's new poetry collection, The Weight of One Hummingbird Feather is a tragic memoir of the loss of her son to drug addiction in early January 2023. These raw and honest poems reveal...

Author: Maria Vasquez BoydPublisher: Spartan PressPublication Date: Aug 03, 2022Number of Pages: 66 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1958182087ISBN-13: 9781958182086

Author: Steve BrisendinePublisher: Spartan PressPublication Date: April 02, 2021Number of Pages: 84 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1952411521ISBN-13: 9781952411526

There is an emotional breadth and depth to Tim's work that is palpable. A deep sense of abiding presence and immediacy felt in each poem; as if he's sitting there with you, across some table in a...

Author: Linda LewisPublisher: Spartan PressPublication Date: Aug 03, 2022Number of Pages: 84 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1958182133ISBN-13: 9781958182130

Brenda Linkeman began writing poetry when she was a sophomore in high school and only recently began publishing. She has had poems published in The Gasconade Review and the Trailer Park Quarterly...