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Presents a collection of original poems, short stories, and essays from talented authors both established and emerging in their craft. The issue also features translations of work not originally composed in English, as well as reviews of recent contemporary creative books.

Focuses on alumni in the broadest sense of the word. Some of the best writers and artists in and from the Ozarks are featured, along with a generous mix of Missouri State students and faculty. Authors include former Missouri Poet Laureate Walter Bargen, Michael Burns, Kerry James Evans, Brian Shawver, Roland Sodowsky, Alexandra Teague, Laura Lee Washburn, and National Poet Laureate Ted Kooser, who offers a poem and an exclusive interview.

Blue Sabine is a big, spellbinding novel, as deep and complex as the Texas river for which it's named. The mystery and relevance of the past is Gerald Duff's great theme, as he masterfully traces one family's history from the Civil War to the present day. His great characters are all astonishing storytellers, with true and compelling voices that will ring in my head forever." --Lee Smith, author of Mrs. Darcy and the Blue-Eyed Stranger and On ...

Lavishly colour-illustrated, the 2012 volume of Moon City Review centres on children's literature and its increasingly blurry borderlands. MCR 2012 offers a variable feast of poetry, fiction, criticism, graphic arts, and 'archival treasures' by Rose O'Neill, Robert Wallace, and Young E. Allison, all for and/or about children and young adults.

Sally LaChance leads a double life. By day, she works as a park ranger in a midsized Missouri town. At night, she acts as emcee for the local roller derby team, the Boonslick Bombers, at the Empire Roller Rink. Sally loses her temper one day and pulls a gun on a group of polluters in Karst Park. Her boyfriend captures the moment on film and posts the footage to YouTube, putting Sally's job, her relationships, and her life at risk.

Offers Moon City Review's annual examination of the best in contemporary literature. Today's best writers contribute short stories, poems, essays, book reviews, and translations of works not originally penned in English. Contributors to this 2014 edition Craig Albin, Roy Bentley, Vanessa Blakeslee, Cynthia Marie Hoffman, George Looney, Richard Newman, Phoebe Reeves, Amber Sparks, Matthew Vollmer, and Gabriel Welsch.

As the sequel to Morkan's Quarry, The Teeth of the Souls tells the story of a marriage betrayed, a lifelong and secret love, and an Ozarks city riven by an Easter lynching. Grounded in historical research and spanning Missouri's reconstruction, vigilantism, and fall from grace, The Teeth of the Souls chronicles the violent melding of immigrant strains into the fabric of the Ozarks.

The twenty stories in this collection introduce an unusual hodgpodge of everyman--children, men, and women who inhabit different eras and countries, all seeking deliverance.

The editors of Moon City Press present another anthology of the best in contemporary literature. Established writers and new voices have both contributed short stories, poems, essays, book reviews, and translations to make up this annual edition.

In her debut collection of stories, Laura Hendrix Ezell assembles a harmonious chorus of resilient female voices - many speaking from the margins of their own lives, all contemplating their complicated relationships with the men who influence their trajectories. Ezell's stories capture their characters not only at their most vulnerable, but also at essential moments of self-discovery.

Delivers a whimsical look at our culture's obsession with apocalypse as well as a thoughtful reflection on our resources in the face of disasters both large and small, personal and public. Pop-culture characters deliver humorous but insightful commentary on survival and resilience through poems that span imagined scenarios that are not entirely beyond the realm of possibility.

This is an unpredictable generational story about abuse, recovery, love, hate, bravery, fear, devotion, and disillusionment. Sixty-year-old Madeline and the rest of the characters have to make several crucial choices, all of which can and will affect their lives on the road, and forever. Along the way, everyone learns their most important lesson, that you can never grow too old to surprise yourself.

When James T Whitehead (or 'Big Jim', as friends knew him) passed away in 2003, Fayetteville and the University of Arkansas lost one of its finest poets and beloved teachers. This anthology collects original poetry, short fiction, essays, and remembrances of Whitehead. It celebrates the man's life and contribution to American letters.

Through a series of dramatic monologues, the fourteen poems gathered here give life to the Jewish-apocryphal legend of "Jesus, son of Pantera" - the story that Jesus was sired by a Roman soldier. In his introduction to the collection, a Biblical scholar recounts the Scriptural, apocryphal, and archaeological evidence upon which the story is based.

Jim W Corder will be remembered by students and colleagues at Texas Christian University for his writing, teaching, and original thinking. His numerous publications include "Lost in West Texas" (1988), "Chronicle of a Small Town" (1989), and "Yonder: Life on the Far Side of Change" (1992).

Some of the Words Are Theirs is far more than the tale of an adult child of an alcoholic. Jensenas story chronicles how he came to widen the lens through which he saw his past, removing the filters of the victim and abandoned child, allowing him to see events as significant primarily in the meaning we choose to give them.

Shows off Jim W Corder's consummate skills as a memoirist, essayist, and cultural critic. This title features subjects that are wide-ranging - West Texas, World War II, writing and teaching, TCU football - one looms above the rest. It deals with Corder's lifetime love affair with America's pastoral sport, baseball.

The 2010 volume of Moon City Review takes 'speculative futures' as its special theme, emphasising utopian, diastopic, sci-fi and fantasy literature and criticism. In addition, MCR 2010 includes original poetry by Jim Daniels, Jeannine Hall Gailey, and Alysse Hotz, fiction by Juned Subhan, Nancy Gold, Ted Chiles, and Pete Duval, criticism by Landis Duffett, and creative nonfiction by Julie Platt.