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As in Hieronymous Bosch's medieval painting, in this collection of long short stories, we see that love and intimacy can be heaven on earth. But too often in our human woundedness, we turn it into hell on earth. These stories explore struggles, self-sabotages and...successes of men and women as they search for that heaven that is connection...

Poems written in the Kansas City area, primarily based on a man's relationship to his health, his family, and his God.

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Poetry about life in Kansas, Kenya, and beyond.

A volume of elegant free-verse poetry by Catherine Anderson.

This is a volume of poetry relating to sports and other events in small-town Kansas settings.

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Like its title poem, this collection insists on art's daily necessity. McCallum chronicles the rhythms of family life, and in the domestic pause between chore and love, in the hushed wake of cleaving or grieving, she catches a visceral sense of life's intensity. In a parent's gaze, a child's "becoming/individual" transfixes attention on the momentousness of any given moment, and it's this same gaze the poet lifts to consider how Being shapes i...

Short stories of a unique milieu. Some are humorous and others are hard-hitting portraits of the characters and settings in Kansas and other places.

In her dazzling first book, POINT OF DEPARTURE, Marina Jaffe explores regions of place and regions of identity in a collection of poems that is so much more than a travelogue. The poet interacts with street kids in Central America, writing poems with heart, but also with a hard eye at the unfortunate realities these children face. The book also examines the lives of fellow continent hoppers, including the tough decisions they make, towards or ...

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Peggy of the Flint Hills" was a beloved Topeka newspaper columnist, dispensing common sense and uncommon insight six days a week for 55 years. But her true masterwork was this little memoir, now seeing publication for the first time - a breathtakingly rich recollection of her childhood in the Ozark foothills and her young adulthood in the Kansas Flint Hills. With a full heart and a matchless memory, Peggy writes of the people and places that s...

A volume of astounding poems on the theme of transformation, this book has been called a love song to the life force. It features stunning black-and-white photographs by Michael Johnson, likened by critics to Ansel Adams. A must-read whether one commonly reads poetry or not. The power and scope of Wyatt Townley s The Afterlives of Trees shakes you to your very bones. There s some audaciously formidable poetry in this book. ---John Weisman, sev...

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Great Poetry of the Southwest United States.

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Finding the Edge appeals with a wry, powerful combination of narrative and lyrical poems. The narratives are small novels, chiseled studies of human folly and vulnerability: You won't soon forget the reckless, highway-obsessed Wally or the hapless woman in "Copperhead." In his lyrical mode, Ortolani is beautifully expansive ("In the surrounding air, /the night spreads from my fingertips..."). Cinematic images abound to present a wondrous but n...

A strong, Midwestern voice, Harley Elliott has been writing and publishing books of poetry for more than 40 years, primarily through Hanging Loose Press (Brooklyn, NY) and Woodley Press (Washburn University, Topeka, KS). More specifically, other publications by Elliott include DARKNESS AT EACH ELBOW and ANIMALS THAT STAND IN DREAMS (both poetry) from Hanging Loose Press and THE MONKEY OF MULBERRY PASS (poetry) and LOADING THE STONE (non-fictio...

Fire Mobile is a poetic narrative beginning with the joining of two lovers and culminating in new life. Its sonnets speak from the voice of a man observing the mysterious, transformative, unpredictable progression of his beloved's pregnancy. The mundane and the bizarre are domains playfully traversed in its pages as well as profound love and an awe for the creative capacities of the human body.

A debut collection of short stories by Kansas writer Tasha Haas. Haas is a strong new voice in our region and nation. Here is what renowned writer Wendell Mayo wrote about this collection: I invite you to read these stories, storiesthat shimmer from dim corners few dare to go-a cornfield in a nightgown, a nurse on a perilous road after dropping an infant, a fallen priest's murderremembered in "prisms of light and shadow revolving in the treeto...