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The anthology Proud to Be: Writing by American Warriors series showcases writing from military veterans and their families from across the nation, including writing about WWI and WWII, Vietnam, the Gulf Conflict, Afghanistan, and Iraq.
Publication: 9/22/23 | Pages: 128
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"Kerry Jones’s work opens our eyes anew. The subtle interplay among her characters is in stark contrast to the action those characters experience. This is life as we live it, often odd, sometimes funny, but always dramatic." —Perry Glasser, author of American Mayhem
Publication: March 31, 2023 | Pages: 128
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This collection features the five short plays that were Official Selections of the 2021 Lanford Wilson New American Play Festival – all written by
playwrights based in Missouri (the home state of both the festival and its Pulitzer Prize-winning namesake).
Winner of the Cowles Poetry Prize
Publication: March 31, 2022 | Pages: 84
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"These poems luxuriate on elegance in a way that feels entirely necessary, the way Garbo's eyes lit up the Great Depression or Julie London's voice puts you in the moods to open your flower. Kwon's casually gorgeous lines are the best thing since melted butter."—D.A. POWELL
Publication: 11/11/2022 | Pages: 188
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The anthology Proud to Be: Writing by American Warriors series showcases writing from military veterans and their families from across the nation, including writing about WWI and WWII, Vietnam, the Gulf Conflict, Afghanistan, and Iraq.
Publication: October, 28, 2022 | Pages: 75
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"Corrie Lynn White’s debut collection stays faithful to the idea that holiness can be found in any earthly place." —David Roderick, author of The Americans
Publication: September 30, 2022 | Pages: 132
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In The Man with Wolves for Hands, Metaphor folds into allegory, folds into psychological exploration, folds into a meditation on trauma and struggle.
Publication: March 1, 2022 | Pages: 90
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This collection features the five short plays that were Official Selections of the 2021 Lanford Wilson New American Play Festival – all written by
playwrights based in Missouri (the home state of both the festival and its Pulitzer Prize-winning namesake).
Publication: December 1, 2021 | Pages: 224
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ISBN: 9781733015356
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The anthology Proud to Be: Writing by American Warriors showcases writing from military veterans and their families from across the nation, including writing about WWI and WWII, Vietnam, the Gulf Conflict, Afghanistan, and Iraq.
Publication: October 1, 2021 | Pages: 86
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A somewhat autobiographical collection of poetry focuses on the illnesses and deaths of the poet’s parents during her teen years, focusing on palliative care and literal plastics.
Publication: September 1, 2021 | Pages: 218
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A multi-generational, historical collection of short stories, based on the author’s family and her personal experiences as the daughter of a Santeria priestess.
Publication: March 1, 2021 | Pages: 130
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Joshua Cross's debut story collection, set in the mining town of Black Bear Creek, where characters struggle to survive against rampant poverty while their drinking water is poisoned and the mountains around them are stripped away.
Publication: November 11, 2020 | Pages: 220
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ISBN: 978-1-73-301530-1
The volume also sponsored a veterans’ writing competition. The winners and finalists are spotlighted in the front of the book.
The anthology is the eighth in an annual series published by Southeast Missouri State University Press in cooperation with the Missouri Humanities Council’s Veterans Projects. See submissions guidelines here.
Publication: March 1, 2021 | Pages: 60
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"If you let it, Look Alive can be the guardian inoculation that pierces you with a little taste of the big grief and the big joy so you can survive them when they come." - Alicia Mountain, author of High Ground Coward
Publication: October 1, 2020 | Pages: 195
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The Faulkner and García Márquez Conference was hosted by the Center for Faulkner Studies October 11-13, 2018, on the campus of Southeast Missouri State University in Cape Girardeau, Missouri.
Winner of the Nilsen Prize
Publication: October 1, 2020 | Pages: 266
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Weird Pig is about Weird Pig, a pig who wants to do right. But doing right isn’t always easy.
Publication: March 2, 2020 | Pages: 192
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Author of the award-winning Prague Summer returns with a new story collection that explores American lives both at home and abroad in the age of anxiety—a world gone sour with regret...
Publication: March 2, 2020 | Pages: 108
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To enter the Inside of Inside Ball Lightning is to listen to a startling voice—or is it to be startled by a listening voice? A voice like a perpetual aside in a play written by dusk and the sensation of salt granules on the tongue.
Winner of the Cowles Poetry Prize
Publication: October 1, 2019 | Pages: 62
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With attention to the Japanese occupation, the Korean War and its aftermath, The People’s Field reflects on the sounds, ideas and histories of the Korean peninsula.
Winner of the Nilzen Prize
Publication: October 1, 2019 | Pages: 172
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"Ron Austin writes sentences so sharp you could cut meat with them, characters so real you swear you're fighting with them. This book is a special treat. Avery Colt may be a snake, a thief and a liar, but the teller of his stories is a master." –Rion Amilcar Scott
Publication: 11/11/19 | Pages: 192
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Proud to Be: Writing by American Warriors, Volume 5 presents essays, fiction, poetry, interviews, and photography by military-service personnel, veterans, and their families.
Publication: October 2018 | Pages: 290
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ISBN: 978-0-9979262-93
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The Faulkner and Hemingway Conference was hosted by the Center for Faulkner Studies October 20-22, 2016, on the campus of Southeast Missouri State University in Cape Girardeau, Missouri.
Publication: 11/1/2018 | Pages: 196
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Proud to Be: Writing by American Warriors, Volume 5 presents essays, fiction, poetry, interviews, and photography by military-service personnel, veterans, and their families.
Winner of the Nilsen Prize
Publication: October 8, 2018 | Pages: 160
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ISBN: 978-0-0079262-7-9
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"...a magical book of stories weaving webs of surprise and wonder that bind your very flesh and bones..." --Jonis Agee
Available October 8, 2018
Winner of the Cowles Poetry Prize
Publication: October 1, 2018 | Pages: 96
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ISBN: 978-0-997-92628-6
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"...a staggering achievement. These poems worry several stones in their pockets—grief and the body, certainly, rubbing both until they gleam..." --Maggie Smith
Available October 1, 2018
Publication: December 1, 2017 | Pages: 212
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ISBN: 978099792622
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Proud to Be: Writing by American Warriors, Volume 5 presents essays, fiction, poetry, interviews, and photography by military-service personnel, veterans, and their families.
Publication: 8 October 2017 | Pages: 124
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ISBN: 9780997926224
Publication: 10/1/2017 | Pages: 148
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Winner Nilsen Prize
Publication: September 1, 2017 | Pages: 224
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ISBN: 978-0-997962-4-8
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2015 Nilsen Prize Winner
Cowles Poetry Book Prize Winner
Publication: October 1, 2017 | Pages: 68
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ISBN: 978-0-9979262-5-5
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2016 Winner of the Cowles Poetry Book Prize
Publication: June 2017 | Pages:
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Faulkner and Hurston is a collection of literary criticism from the 2014 Faulkner/Hurston Conference at Southeast Missouri State University. Faulkner and Hurston is Volume Five in Southeast’s Faulkner Conference Series.
Publication: December 4, 2016 | Pages: 244
Paperback, $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-9979262-0-0
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Proud to Be: Writing by American Warriors, Volume 5 presents essays, fiction, poetry, interviews, and photography by military-service personnel, veterans, and their families.
Publication: November 1, 2016 | Pages: 248
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James Harold “Jim” Hamby was a football coach at Southeast Missouri State University and a brilliant, very popular professor of philosophy at Southeast from 1968 until his death in 1986 at the age of fifty-five. He studied birds, taught himself the art of watercolors, and gave more than 300 of his beautiful and detailed creations to other faculty and friends.
Cowles Poetry Prize Winner
Publication: October 25, 2016 | Pages: 88
Paperback, $14.00
ISBN: 978-0-9962596-8-2
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"Full of essential solitudes though simultaneously lit by "a whore's lightbulb against a star sky," the poems in this, Modlin's first, book are remarkable for their candor, for their wit, for their urge toward and into new moods and new modes. . . ."
Winner Nilsen Prize for a First Novel
Publication: September 1, 2016 | Pages: 312
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After school, custodian Oliver Nix investigates a strange sound coming from the boys' locker room. What he finds rocks this suburban Atlanta community.
Publication: September 1, 2016 | Pages: 72
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ISBN: 978-0-9962596-5-1
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Jason Allen's A Meditation on Fire is a book of survival: survival of addiction, one's family and hometown, erotic and companionate love and the shell casings it leaves behind.
Publication: November 11, 2015 | Pages: 272
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ISBN: 978-0-9962596-4-4
Proud to Be: Writing by American Warriors, Volume 4 presents essays, fiction, poetry, interviews, and photography by military-service personnel, veterans, and their families.
Publication: October 1, 2015 | Pages: 148
Paperback, $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-9962596-2-0
In his latest literary thriller, David Armand weaves together the stories of an eccentric cast of dark, frighteningly realist characters, each under suspicion of murdering a young girl, Amber Varnado, whose body is found hidden in a deep gorge at the opening of the novel.
Winner Nilsen Prize for a First Novel
Publication: October 1, 2015 | Pages: 244
Paperback, $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-9903530-8-9
Hard-boiled noir meets academic satire in Academy Gothic. Tate Cowlishaw is late for another faculty meeting when he discovers the body of Scoot Simkins, dean of Parshall College. Cowlishaw might be legally blind but sees that a man with three bullets in his head didn’t put them there himself. The police disagree.
Winner Cowles Poetry Prize
Publication: September 1, 2015 | Pages: 88
Paperback, $14.00
ISBN: 978-0-9962596-1-3
Inaugural winner of the Cowles Poetry Book Prize.
Runner-Up in the 2014 Faulkner- Wisdom Novella Competition
Publication: June 2015 | Pages: 80
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ISBN: 978-0-9903530-6-5
From Tickfaw to Shongaloo is a comic Southern tale told in the first person by Raylene, a local gossip in little Stokely, Louisiana. Bert Dilly the postmaster (we learn), has been spreading town gossip (like everyone else), fueled by his habit of being a little too involved with the local mail (opened or not). A disgruntled maiden lady writes a scathing letter of complaint, which is reported to the state postmaster, and Bert’s brother, J.T., accuses Bert of mental incompetence (he wants the family land). Bert is replaced until the charges can be taken up by a federal court in Baton Rouge.
Publication: May 2015 | Pages: 228
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ISBN: 978-0-9903530-9-6
Faulkner and Warren is a collection of literary criticism from the 2012 Faulkner/Warren Conference at Southeast Missouri State University. Faulkner and Warren is Volume Four in Southeast’s Faulkner Conference Series.
Publication: November 2014 | Pages: 232
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ISBN: 978-0-9903530-4-1
Proud to Be: Writing by American Warriors, Volume 3 presents essays, fiction, poetry, interviews, and photography by military-service personnel, veterans, and their families.
Publication: December 2014 | Pages: 152
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ISBN: 978-0-9903530-3-4
Beginning with a 105-year-old house at 313 Themis Street in Cape Girardeau—and its mysterious inside arch that suggested a once-outside doorway—Kaye Smith Hamblin has created a book that charts not only the history of a magnificent home but the history of a region and a family that influenced that history.
Publication: October 2014 | Pages: 420
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ISBN: 978-0-9903530-2-7
A thousand soldiers held off an army ten times larger at Missouri’s Thermopylae.
In the fall of 1864, Confederate General Edmund Kirby Smith appointed Major General Sterling Price to lead a raid behind Federal lines into Missouri and to capture St. Louis or Jefferson City. Price entered Missouri with an army of 12,000 men but, instead of moving directly to St. Louis, decided to attack the weakly defended Federal post at Pilot Knob, Missouri, guarded by an insignificant earthwork known as Fort Davidson.
Publication: September 2014 | Pages: 544
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ISBN: 978-0-9903530-0-3
Because of his love of legal history and his respect for the United States Federal District Court of the Eastern District of Missouri , Senior United States District Judge E. Richard Webber had long desired to have a formal history of the Court. With author and historian Burton A. Boxerman as writer, Judge Webber formed a committee of experts that included prominent attorneys in the private practice of law who shared his passion for legal history and the court system.
Beginning with the Court’s roots in the Articles of the Confederation, Boxerman describes the history of the Federal Judiciary and its selection process that ensures rigorous consideration of qualifications. He includes the judges’ biographies, available photos, and discussions of many major cases and their implications, with copies in the appendix of the original documents in the famous Dred Scott trial.
Winner 2013 Nilsen Prize for a First Novel
Publication: September 2014 | Pages: 324
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ISBN: 978-0-9903530-1-0
Fifteen-year-old Theresa Williams has just settled under the oak tree in her front yard to read a book when she notices the boot dangling at eye-level. She knows immediately who the dead man is, hanging in the heavy foliage of the family oak tree. That is, she knows Lawrence's name, his deep unhappiness, and how he came to live with her and her mother Maxine, a woman who rages at him constantly, inexplicably. But Theresa will learn the truth about Lawrence, when the turmoil that surrounds the mother and daughter explodes.
Winner 2013 Cowles/Copperdome Chapbook Award
Publication: May 2014 | Pages: 32
Chapbook, $6.00
ISBN: 978-0-9883103-9-1
"It's no small feat to compose a lifetime in just 24 pages of poetry, but Jeffrey Bean has done this, and brilliantly. His poems begin with an adored 'you,' and they make one long to be this beloved person, the language is so luscious and exquisitely tuned (. . . her hair, shook foil). He flits back in time too, revisiting a sensuous childhood where " the graffiti I carved into the grass / has vanished, but the grass insists / on whispering about it." Finally, a newborn appears, "chubby fire, flaring / all night into the eye of / the video monitor." Bean offers startling takes on familiar objects and experiences. A retainer is a "disembodied organ, pink as sex." There's a singing beer can, dancing cellophane, the failed garden brought to life in a closet filled with beautiful red shirts, "that grass-and-river feeling." And always, always, the most lovely, subtle music, for the poet knows not to blare, but to weave sound in, as if it were floating down from an upstairs window." - Sarah Gorham, poet & editor-in-chief of Sarabande Books
Publication: June 2014 | Pages: 112
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ISBN: 978-0-9883103-8-4
Joe P. Dunn is the Charles A. Dana Professor and chair of the Department of History and Politics at Converse College. He is the Council on the Advancement and Support of Education/Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching 2013 South Carolina Professor of the Year.
Publication: June 2014 | Pages: 424
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ISBN: 978-0-9883103-7-7
Bravery was required in the early 1800s frontier along the Mississippi River, and Annamanda's courage helps her family to survive despite ferocious bears, "panthers," Tecumseh's ire, crop failures, roving bands of outlaws, and even the disputes between the many religions that formed and fell at the edges of the movement West.
Following her preacher husband into Missouri's wilds, Annamanda meets the strange Eremus Lodi, a wealthy, educated landowner whose demons isolate him from "proper folk," and his African companion named O'Reilly, whose healing powers save several members of her family. Through danger and deprivation, doubt and wonder, Annamanda faces each trial with humble strength and humor, until the coming of the Great Earthquake of 1811 threatens to destroy all that she knows and loves. In Annamanda's flight from the seemingly endless Great Shaking, she and her family will have to face a final horror known as The Beast that is unleashed in the deep forests of the Middle South.
Publication: February 2014 | Pages: 80
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ISBN: 978-0-9883103-6-0
The Shape of Our Faces No Longer Matters: Poems by decorated Iraqi Freedom veteran Gerardo “Tony” Mena, the first book in a new military-service series. The Military-Service Literature Series is a continuance of the collaboration between Missouri Humanities Council, Southeast Missouri State University Press, and Warriors Arts Alliance that produced the anthologies Proud to Be: Writing by American Warriors Volumes 1 and 2.
The poet, Gerardo Mena, is a decorated Iraqi Freedom veteran. He spent six years in Special Operations with the Reconnaissance Marines. He was awarded a Navy Achievement Medal with a V for Valor for multiple acts of bravery while under fire. His work has been published in such journals as Baltimore Review, Ninth Letter, Prairie Schooner Online, Cream City Review, Poetry East, Cider Press Review, and War, Literature and the Arts, among others. His awards include the 2010 War Poetry award, Missouri Humanities Council’s National Veterans Poetry Competition, the 2011 Penumbra Haiku Contest, and inclusion in Meridian’s Best New Poets 2011 anthology. This is his first book.
Publication: 2013 | Pages: 320
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ISBN: 978-0-9883103-5-3
Proud to Be: Writing by American Warriors, Volume 2 presents essays, fiction, poetry, interviews, and photography by military-service personnel, veterans, and their families.
The anthology is the second in an annual series published by Southeast Missouri State University Press in cooperation with the Missouri Humanities Council's Veterans Projects and the Warriors Arts Alliance.
Publication: 2013 | Pages: 307
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ISBN: 978-0-9883103-2-2
Faulkner and Morrison is volume three in Southeast's Faulkner Conference Series.
The essays in this volume were selected from papers presented at the Faulkner and Morrison Conference hosted by Southeast Missouri State University's Center for Faulkner Studies in Cape Girardeau, October 28-30, 2010.
Winner 2012 Copperdome Poetry Chapbook Contest
Publication: 2013 | Pages: 40
Chapbook, $6.00
ISBN: 978-0-9883103-3-9
Terry Lucas is an award-winning poet and essayist. His chapbook, Altar Call, was a winner in the San Gabriel Valley Literary Festival chapbook contest, and is published in the anthology, Diesel. His chapbook, If They Have Ears To Hear, won the Copperdome Chapbook Contest from Southeast Missouri State University Press. He won the 2012 Littoral Press Poetry Prize and, among other honors, his poems have garnered four Pushcart Prize nominations. Terry’s work has been published in numerous journals including Best New Poets 2012, Great River Review, Green Mountains Review, Grain Magazine, New Millennium Writings and The Comstock Review, among many others. His essay, Metaphor and Love in the Poetry of Alicia Ostriker, is forthcoming in a future volume of the Under Discussion Series by the University of Michigan Press. Terry grew up in New Mexico and resides in northern California. He is Associate Editor for Trio House Press.
Winner Nilsen Prize for a First Novel
Publication: Spring 2013 | Pages: 200
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ISBN: 978-0-9883103-1-5
The Execution Of Richard Sturgis, As Told By His Son, Colin is the story of a rowdy, complex family man and his impressionable son, Colin. When a college student is raped and murdered and his body thrown into the Missouri River, Richard Sturgis and two small town troublemakers are arrested. Sturgis is tried and convicted, while the other two are set free. Colin, deeply scarred by the trial and the shame of enduring his teenage years known as the son of a murderer, doesn’t believe his father is guilty but isn’t sure he is innocent, setting up a lifelong battle within Colin which compels him twenty years later to seek the truth about the murder and about his father.
Winner of the 2013 Stars and Flags Book Award Gold Medal for an Anthology/Collection
Publication: Fall 2012 | Pages: 256
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ISBN: 978-0-9883103-0-8
The anthology Proud to Be: Writing by American Warriors showcases writing from military veterans and their families from across the nation, including writing about WWI and WWII, Vietnam, the Gulf Conflict, Afghanistan, and Iraq.
Publication: February 2012 | Pages: 300
Paperback, 7x10, $22.00
ISBN: 978-0-9830504-2-1
Did you know that actor Carol Burnett has a connection to Southeast Missouri? So do the band TOTO, Frank Sinatra, and Kris Kristofferson!
"No one is more qualified than Jerry Ford to uncover entertainers of various genres from our area of the south central Midwest. The comments, quotes, and photos chronicled by Ford enhance these exciting and entertaining stories that propelled many from riverboats and local nightclubs to opera houses, concert venues, recordings, and TV shows around the world"―Leland J. "Freck" Shivelbine.
Winner of 2011 Copperdome Poetry Chapbook Contest
Publication: 2012 | Pages: 34
Chapbook, $6.00
ISBN: 978-0-9830504-4-5
Poems by Bern Mulvey have appeared, among other places, in Poetry, Agni, Field, Beloit Poetry Journal, Michigan Quarterly Review, Runes, Fine Madness, River City, Snake Nation Review, and Poetry East. His poetry collection The Fat Sheep Everyone Wants won the 2007 Cleveland State University Poetry Center Prize. His chapbook, The Window Tribe, won the 2004 White Eagle Coffee Store Chapbook
Winner of 2010 Copperdome Poetry Chapbook Contest, Finalist in Arts & Letters 2010 Poetry Award and in Ruminate Magazine's 2010 Poetry Awards.
Publication: August 2011 | Pages: 40
Chapbook, $6.00
ISBN: 978-0-9830504-1-4
"Like the paintings of Vermeer, Jessicca Daigle's alluring debut collection privileges the reader with moments so quiet they are all too often overlooked by others, despite the indelible ways in which they mark and transform an individual life.
―Jacqueline Kolosov
Publication: 2011 | Pages: 120
Hardcover, $21.00
ISBN: 978-0-9830504-0-7
"I loved being in the kitchen with my mother and I absorbed all her passion for cooking. This book reflects my family story and our traditions; I hope you enjoy these recipes as much as I do."
Ann Cuiellette is a native of New Orleans who grew up in a large, Creole family―the twelfth of thirteen children. All of the dishes in this Cookbook are family recipes, but each include a story about Ann's experience with that dish growing up in a household filled with love, energy, camaraderie, sometimes chaos, but most of all great food! It's a Cookbook and a Storybook.