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05/30/2026

Now available from Spartan Press: "Just A Moment Please" by Becky Plate

Becky Plate is an enthusiastic Kansan, unabashedly in love with the Heartland. She is best known for lurking in the back of the room with a camera, penning intriguing obituaries and hosting a blog devoted to the Sunflower State. Just a moment please..., Plate's first published...

05/25/2026

Now available from Spartan Press: "The State of Affairs: An Anthology of Missouri Poets," featuring Walter Bargen, Robert Boyd, Victor Clevenger, Matthew Freeman, Ken Gierke, Anna Lum, Chris Nico, Sharon SingingMoon, Clarence Wolfshohl and
Scot Young

The State of Affairsin this small carroll town on an up down crouched street in a wood-boxed backyard you'll find four pumpkins my children spent hours stabbing & styling up for fun they once sat side-by-side on the front porch for weeks with a burning...

05/23/2026

A review of Richard Stimac's "Blood, Stone and Water" at Lavender Orchids.

Book Reviews,  Others : Blood, Stone and Water by Richard Stimac May 3, 2026 / Comments Off on : Blood, Stone and Water by Richard Stimac Blood, Water and Stone Poet: Richard Stimac Publisher: Spartan Press Rating: ⅘ Richard Stimac’s Blood, Water, and Stone feels less like a poet...

05/18/2026

The latest from Spartan Press: "with concern for how words land in the body" by April Pameticky.

Mother, wife, teacher, poet. April Pameticky shares time between roles as public school educator and peer facilitator within the creative community of artists and writers in Kansas. She launched the Wichita Broadside Project and has served as editor of Voices of...

05/13/2026

For eleven years I have had the peculiar privilege of putting every last one of these poets in front of an audience. That sentence makes it sound organized. It's rarely been that easy.What it actually looked like was borrowed rooms, me feeling like Kermit the Frog as I did my best to...

05/09/2026

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05/04/2026

Now available from Spartan Press: "On the Edge of Something" by James Benger.

"James Benger has long been a voice for the down and out, those who've never caught a break or had that one teacher who took notice and said, "You can do this." Most of the world looks away from them. Benger shows us their pain and humanity, pulls us into their corner. She, the subject of this...

04/29/2026

Now available from Spartan Press: "Postscripts from Past Lives, An Anthology of St. Louis Poet," featuring Kee Archambault,
T. James Chapman, Jesse Eikmann, Jill Firns, Elise Giammanco,
Zaire Imani, Heather Kays, Denmark Laine, Jared C Lewis,
Cierra Lowe, Jim McGowin, RC Patterson, Brett Lars Underwood,
Daniel W. Wright.

For eleven years I have had the peculiar privilege of putting every last one of these poets in front of an audience. That sentence makes it sound organized. It's rarely been that easy.What it actually looked like was borrowed rooms, me feeling like Kermit the Frog as I did my best to...

04/23/2026

Now available from Spartan Press: "The State of Affairs: An Anthology of Missouri Poets," featuring Walter Bargen, Robert Boyd, Victor Clevenger, Matthew Freeman, Ken Gierke, Anna Lum, Chris Nico, Sharon SingingMoon, Clarence Wolfshohl and
Scot Young

Discover The State of Affairs by Jason Ryberg and millions of other books available at Barnes & Noble. Shop paperbacks, eBooks, and more!