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Celebrate National Poetry Month with Meadowlark Poets
Through the month of April, use the coupon code “CELEBRATE POETS” for $2.00 off the purchase of any poetry book in the Meadowlark Bookstore.
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Meet the Meadowlark Poets Roy J. Beckemeyer
lives in Wichita, KS. His poems have appeared in half
a dozen anthologies as well as in a variety of print and online journals. His first book of poetry, Music I Once Could Dance To (Coal City Press, Lawrence, KS, 2014) was selected as a Kansas Notable Book. He was co-editor with Caryn Mirriam– Goldberg, Kansas Poet Laureate Emerita, of Kansas Time + Place: An Anthology of Heartland Poetry. He was president of the Kansas Authors Club from 2016-2017 and was KAC Poet of the Year in 2013, and 2016-2017. He won the Kansas Voices Poetry Award in 2016. Read excerpts from Stage
Whispers.
Ronda Miller
is a Life Coach who works with clients who have lost someone to
homicide. She is a graduate of the University of Kansas and continues to live in Lawrence. She is a Fellow of The Citizen Journalism Academy, World Company, a Certified Life Coach with IPEC (Institute of Professional Empowerment Coaching), a mother to two stepsons, Sasha and Nick, a son, Scott and a daughter, Apollonia. She created poetic forms loku and ukol. She was the co-chair, along with Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg, for the Transformative Language Arts Conference at Unity Village September, 2015. Miller was the poetry contest manager for Kansas Authors Club (2011-2014), District 2 President (2015 – 2017), Vice President (2016–2017), and State President (2018-2019). Read excerpts from WaterSigns and from MoonStain.
Izzy Wasserstein
was born and raised in Kansas. She teaches English at
Washburn University, writes poetry and fiction, and shares a house with a variety of animal companions and the writer Nora E. Derrington. Her work has appeared in Prairie Schooner, Flint Hills Review, Crab Orchard Review, and elsewhere. Her first poetry collection, This Ecstasy They Call Damnation, was a 2013 Kansas Notable book. She likes to slowly run long distances. Read excerpts from When Creation Falls.
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Kansas Poet Laureate (2017-2019)
Kevin Rabas chairs the Department of
English, Modern Languages, and Journalism at Emporia State and leads the poetry and playwriting tracks. He has nine books, including Bird’s Horn, Lisa’s Flying Electric Piano, a Kansas Notable Book and Nelson Poetry Book Award winner, Sonny Kenner’s Red Guitar, also a Nelson Poetry Book Award winner, Green Bike, Eliot’s Violin, Spider Face: stories, Songs for My Father: poems & stories, All That Jazz, and Late for Cymbal Line. Rabas writes regularly for Kansas City’s Jazz Ambassador Magazine (JAM). Rabas’s plays have been produced across Kansas and in North Carolina and San Diego. His work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize five times, and Rabas is the winner of the Langston Hughes Award for Poetry, the Victor Contoski Poetry Award, the Jerome Johanning Playwriting Award, and the Salina New Voice Award. Read excerpts from Songs of My Father. Coming 2018, Like Buddah-Calm Bird.
Tyler Sheldon is the author of the chapbooks Consolation Prize (Finishing Line Press, 2018), Traumas (Yellow Flag Press, 2017), and First Breaths of Arrival (Oil Hill Press, 2016). He received the 2016 Charles E. Walton Essay Award, and his poetry has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. His writing has appeared in The Midwest Quarterly, The Los Angeles Review, Quiddity International Literary Journal, The Dos Passos Review, Coal City Review, and other venues. He holds an MA in English from Emporia State University. Tyler lives in Baton Rouge, and is married to the artist Alexandria Arceneaux. Coming 2018, Driving Together. Read excerpts from Driving Together. In addition to writing,
Olive L. Sullivan
performs in the band Amanita, and in
her free time, likes to fly-fish with her husband, the scholar and writer Stephen Harmon; take long walks with dogs; and travel anywhere that requires a passport. She is an apprentice bookbinder. Read excerpts from Wandering Bone.
Cheryl Unruh
loves words. And sentences. The flat land of Kansas. Sunshine.
And a big blue sky (puffy white clouds are optional). She builds poems, essays, and short stories at a small desk in her home in Emporia, Kansas. She is the author of two books of essays, Flyover People: Life on the Ground in a Rectangular State, a 2011 Kansas Notable Book, and Waiting on the Sky: More Flyover People Essays, a 2015 Kansas Notable Book. Cheryl has won awards from the Kansas Press Association and the Kansas Association of Broadcasters. She received the 2016 Kansas’ Finest Award from Kansas! Magazine. Read excerpts from Walking on Water.
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“Stage Whispers speaks from on, off, below, and above the stages of life, as well as the stages of lives we travel, showing us how to hear what we have to say to the world and what the world is saying to us… Beckemeyer once again shows us the essential nature of listening closely to the music and quiet of everyday rhythms, yearnings, connections, losses, and motions. He writes with originality and precision about the natural world, growing up in the Midwest, old friends and old places that shaped lives, and even the workings of our minds...the most powerful cord that threads through this book is love: love for being alive to witness the tilting of seasons and weather, both external and internal, as well as love for the moments and humans that illuminate our days.” — Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg, 2009-13 Kansas Poet Laureate, and author of Everyday Magic: Fieldnotes on the Mundane and the Miraculous “In precise language and varied forms… Stage Whispers welcomes readers into thoughtful narrative observations that are personal and political, serious and light-hearted. Like the multitude of grasses on the Kansas prairie, these handsomely crafted poems are grounded in nature’s deep richness and beauty, yet contemplate Christianity, science, and humanity…” —Kathryn Kysar, author of Dark Lake and Pretend the World “These poems are lean yet muscled with the intense track of a quail hunt, the rise and rustle of prey, the sudden fall to the ground… savor this collection from a skilled craftsman of modern verse.” —Gary Lechliter, author of Off the Beaten Path “Roy Beckemeyer’s Stage Whispers invites us to see the lively currents that underpin our world. His wide-ranging eye examines everything from the microscopic to the cosmic and reports back to us a universe filled with brightness and worthy of our close attention.”
Paperback: 128 pages Meadowlark, September 2018 ISBN-13: 978-1732241039 ISBN-10: 1732241031
—Skyler Lovelace, poet and artist, Professor of Digital Media and proprietor of Pixel Time
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“Izzy Wasserstein writes and lives an original life, no holds barred, and be ready to trek unknown terrain. She ranges from corn chip factories to ‘fog-thick’ rivers. She narrates and lyricizes the urban landscape, peopling it with preachers and panhandlers. This is a skilled writer who will lure you into her world. You will not be able to forget it.” ~Denise Low, 2007-09 Kansas Poet Laureate, author of Shadow Light “. . . an archeological excursion into origins of knowledge and doubt, homecoming and expulsion, real monsters and fictional faiths, and the soul of place and time. Izzy Wasserstein is a time traveler of a poet, from her ‘Report to William Stafford’ about the immortal and amoral wind, to her confluence of Columbus’s landing and biblical Isaac in ‘1492.’ She writes with great verve and vision, continually unearthing memory and history to show the layers of loss bleeding through the present, reminding us that ‘we drag our world with us, even to the depths.’” ~Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg, 2009-13 Kansas Poet Laureate, and author of Everyday Magic: Fieldnotes on the Mundane and the Miraculous “In When Creation Falls, Izzy Wasserstein guides us through her Topeka upbringing, the blink of millions of years, tornado sirens, and the sermons that don’t always deliver. She gives powerful voice to the golem, her past namesake, poverty’s ghosts, the time traveler, the bends in lonely creeks, metaphorical riffs on cancer, and bison skulls. These inspiring poems are personal, political, and persistent in reminding us that even in confronting our fears of falling short, we are always writing to discover the lasting warmth of love, to find what lies in the footnotes, and to ‘reject the sin of silence.’” ~Juan J. Morales, author of The Siren World and The Handyman’s Guide to End Times
Paperback: 104 pages Meadowlark, May 2018 ISBN-13: 978-0996680196 ISBN-10: 0996680195 Retail Price: $15.00 We encourage readers to order our books through their favorite independent bookstore, or direct via the Meadowlark Bookstore
“. . . as transparent as glass — not a window, but a corrective lens, restoring detail and dignity to world of distortions and cynical simplifications. This is a poet furious at injustice but suspicious of fury.” ~Eric McHenry, 2015-17 Kansas Poet Laureate
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“Intimate and lovely, the poems of Tyler Robert Sheldon allow us to appreciate the small, overlooked wonders of our familiar worlds.” ~Allison Joseph, author of Confessions of a Barefaced Woman “Tyler Sheldon performs a young poet’s affection for formative experience recollected in early manhood, seasoned with a mischievous whimsy.” ~Steven Hind, author of The Loose Change of Wonder “Tyler Sheldon . . . speaks directly and distinctly to the everyday realities and deep-night mysteries of life. Driving Together invites the reader to climb on for a ride across vistas of land and language, picking up speed by reading the omens along the way, and slowing down just in time to arrive at new understandings of home and adventure.” ~Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg, 2009-2013 Kansas Poet Laureate, author of Everyday Magic: Field Notes on the Mundane and the Miraculous
“. . . excavates a family history and maps its place in Kansas with a storyteller’s mind and a poet’s precision. These poem’s honor Sheldon’s identical twin brother who died after a ‘small handful of hours,’ and give a language for the spaces we make for the lives that were too short: ‘I see you behind my eyelids, and touch / you as I pluck a leaf from concrete.’ Sheldon writes to illuminate how loss defines a place—‘Our best scenery / is not on the ground’—and in doing so, preserves what is fleeting. ~Ruth Awad, author of Set to Music a Wildfire
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“Driving Together by Tyler Robert Sheldon is a dynamic book of verse that celebrates life through love: fraternal love, romantic love, love for mindfulness, love for nature, love for writing. In its lines, the poet confesses his greatest fears, but they are released along with the breath the reader exhales when each syllable is pronounced; likewise, it is there where the poetic voice and the reader intersect in a journey of words that can be read peacefully time after time: ‘. . . The record will spin like the passing world . . . We’ll listen again—as many times as we need.’ In these pages, the poet holds an inner dialogue with himself, guiding the reader through the poetic voice’s rite of passage. With each verse, Sheldon’s voice matures, reaching a catharsis in the end. The present moment is full of creative energy through which the poet continues his life journey, ‘his ears alert, his eyes full of wind and moon.’ This is a book I will read again and again.” ~Xánath Caraza, Writer-in-Residence, Westchester Community College, New York
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“With wildly-original images, sparkling wit, and a voice all her own, Olive writes poetry of expansive courage and vision, tipping over the edge of dreams we can remember without understanding, and celebrating the impermanence of life’s nuances. In the end, she illuminates the vital colors, textures, shapes of pure desire, deep quandaries, and the kind of exploration that brings us to the essence of home—all on the way to ‘Welcome the spirits in.’ As she writes in her poem, Praise Song for the River, ‘We come to god each in our own way/ but we find ourselves on the banks of the same river,/ our hot feet dangling in the same cool green water.’ This collection of poetry shines with originality, wisdom, and power as it continually tilts the reader toward new ways to perceive their own journeys.” ~Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg, 2009-13 Kansas Poet Laureate and author of Everyday Magic: Field Notes on the Mundane and the Miraculous
Paperback: 110 pages ISBN-13: 978-0996680189 ISBN-10: 0996680187
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The Meadowlark Books Poetry Sampler—2019 “. . . charts water’s path for plainspeople—water in the aquifer, water in the clouds, water in the field ditches and in the bird’s beak and in the mother’s womb. In this way, Miller’s collection is a celebration of life’s true blood, and Miller gets the people and the flora and fauna of Kansas -country right, right down to the dew drops on grass blades.” ~Kevin Rabas, Kansas Poet Laureate 2017-2019 “These are poems that snap open like a milkweed pod to release their seeds of visceral life, silky from the interior life, to bud and bloom again.” ~Kim Stafford, author of Early Morning: Remembering My Father, William Stafford “. . . streams with wind and sun, small towns, and prairie sky. Here, there is a current of coyote bones, a legacy in an old woman’s eye glasses, a whiskey bottle behind a barn. Ronda Miller’s understanding of the natural world is real and never glossed. So too, her people live in a Kansas of the heart, one with the wind that buffets them, a poetry that runs deep with a melancholy longing for simple truth.” ~Al Ortolani, author of Paper Birds Don’t Fly “The story is compelling, and the music of the language is a solace.” ~Denise Low, Kansas Poet Laureate 2007-2009 “. . . a hard testament to our rocky communion with nature, and with how the often violent, temperamental world darkens and shapes youth, adulthood, and beyond. Miller reminds us in sure terms of life’s temporality, how falling trees can ‘steal the soul / and leave the shell’ of what we know. . . the poet knows that the natural world is deep down a balm, a ‘place of safe retreat’ where we can whiff pipe tobacco ‘sweet as homemade fudge.’” ~Tyler Robert Sheldon, author of First Breaths of Arrival Paperback: 110 pages ISBN-13: 978-0996680127 ISBN-10: 0996680128 Retail Price:$15.00 We encourage readers to order our books through their favorite independent bookstore, or direct via the
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“. . . a search for healing: healing for her, for the ones she loves, for the rest of us who share this earth with her. There are poems here that flay us with pain, carry us from the edge of suicide, ‘breaking pretty little vases / …for anything / with sharp edges,’ to the depths of a widow’s grief, ‘I found his wedding ring on the bottom / of a glass jar filled with pencil shavings. / …dumped word ashes onto my palm.’ But then there are poems that lave the blessings of holy waters over those wounds: ‘You went all the way to the moon and back. / I saw you there myself,’ she says to a child awakening from a nightmare. ‘Touch Me with Your Night / and I’ll show you my days,’ she offers, and you stretch out your hand. You would do well to accompany her on this search . . . These are poems that seek words to help us come to terms with all that life presents, and in the end, finds them.” ~Roy Beckemeyer, author of Music I Once Could Dance To “Ronda Miller’s poetry is explosive and exceptional.” ~Alan S. Kleiman, author of Grand Slam
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“. . . a refreshing and original exploration of place: poems that speak from the earth and into the sky of what it means to live and create in the center of the continent.” ~Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg, 2009–13 Kansas Poet Laureate and author of Everyday Magic: Field Notes on the Mundane and the Miraculous
“The hallmark of Cheryl Unruh’s prose has always been its lyricism. Admirers of her essays and columns—which is to say, anybody who has read them—will be delighted and not at all surprised to learn that she produces wise, witty, painterly poems as well. ~Eric McHenry, 2015–17 Kansas Poet Laureate
“Cheryl Unruh brings to her poems the same insider’s insight and openeyed sense of wonder that made her essays about Kansas so delightful.” ~Roy Beckemeyer, author of Music I Once Could Dance To
“. . . re-exhibits her keen eye for Kansas life and her heart for Kansasland and its people, from its coyote ‘running for home like a kid / late for curfew’ to its ‘cicadas (that) chant evening prayers.’ The collection also exhibits her wit, revealed in to-do lists that include ‘Spend only dimes today . . . Restripe the zebras . . . Do not cry at elevator music . . . Blare Jimmy Buffett until the neighbors complain . . . Toss yesterday to the wind.’ Such is the way of this collection, full of wit and wisdom, as strong as her prose, but with more vivid light, like a thin blue butane flame.”
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“. . . a book of poetry that will make the reader complete. It is a life in all its joy and sadness, a life of searching and discovery.” ~Diane D. Wahto, MFA Creative Writing, co-editor of 365 Days
“Through a variety of poetic styles, Miller’s details are compelling and powerful. She puts readers into the poems and pulls them from one poem to the next.” ~Maryfrances Wagner, author of Salvatore’s Daughter, Red Silk, Light Subtracts Itself, and Dioramas
“Ronda Miller's MoonStain brings a measured darkness to the reader’s eye, and the phases of this collection (sections, here) are full of important themes. Miller, recounting death and slow carousel of nature, transcends traditional description and feels every word in all its lush power. These poems are imagistic and efficient, and we feel them too. I envy those readers who have yet to discover this book for the first time-the feeling is a rush, like moonlight.” ~Tyler Robert Sheldon, author of Driving Together (Meadowlark 2018)
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“There is something of the kernel of reminiscence in Kevin Rabas’s work, a sense that for all its artfulness, the poems are the purest distillation of memory and feeling. At its heart, this collection pays homage not just to a particular feisty father, but to all fathers that we love in their peculiarities and imperfections. The writing is deft and observant, with an understated humor and warmth. At the same time, it is a celebration of ‘the lick and needle of fire, song,’ that is, to the making of music. Through Rabas’s words, we are welcomed to an insider’s view of a drummer’s realm, where we learn of the timekeeper’s measured ticks and splintered drumsticks.” ~Donald Levering, author of Coltrane’s God
“Kevin Rabas creates poems and stories that lay bare the soul of this poet, musician, husband, father, and son. His words are visceral and true, deeply personal, and ultimately universal. Songs for My Father is his bravest collection to date, as he explores the complex, occasionally contentious, but always loving, relationship between father and son. Rabas’s poems hum with the spirit and tempo you would expect from this noted jazz drummer. If you have a father or you are a music lover or you quest after the truth, you will savor Rabas’s latest offering.” ~Michael D. Graves, author of To Leave a Shadow
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“Kevin Rabas’s new collection of poems and story, Like Buddha-Calm Bird, improvises on and riffs off the variable rhythms of the stories we create, revise, and live. Writing the music inherent in changing narratives of the ordinary and extraordinary. Rabas illustrates what fellow Kansas poet meant when he said, ‘Anyone who breathes is in the rhythm business, anyone who is alive is caught up in the imminences, the doubts mixed with the triumphant certainty, of poetry.’ Whether writing about Ugandan rain, the Bossa Nova, a middle school drummer, or the T. Rex at a museum, Rabas puts his ear to what wants to be said, then moseys into words slow and deliberate, or explodes into language fast and on the wing. In a sense, much of this collection leads up the final section, ‘Eclipse,’ showing us how we partner with the life force to co-create this world: ‘the breath of God/ comes in a cloud’ and ‘an open/mouth whistles/ over and past tall grasses/ from dust, remakes the world.’” ~Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg, Kansas Poet Laureate 2009-13, and author of Everyday Magic: Fieldnotes on the Mundane and the Miraculous “Like Buddha-Calm Bird, by Kansas Poet Laureate, Kevin Rabas, is a gift of captured moments offered to his many readers and admirers. The intrepid poet never blinks, never misses a detail, wielding his pen as a surgeon does a scalpel, dissecting the butterfly without blemishing its beauty. Intimacy during a speakeasy gig, embarrassment at a jazz drummers’ clinic, humor in an exercise class, humiliation from a bully, and tenderness with his soulmate are among the moments pondered and presented in Rabas’s fearless voice. As always, his words ring true.” ~Michael D. Graves, author of To Leave a Shadow and Shadow of Death Paperback: 102 pages04 pages Meadowlark: August 2018 ISBN-13: 978-1732241022 ISBN-10: 9781732241022 Retail Price: $12.00 We encourage readers to order our books through their favorite independent bookstore, or direct via the Meadowlark Bookstore
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From Like Buddha-Calm Bird, by Kevin Rabas
Dennis Chambers, Recorded What I wanted was a minute or two of his groove, up close caught on tape along with filtered through my own two ears, so I snuck a pocket recorder in to the Dennis Chambers clinic, sat up front at the foot of his bass drum, tangled in silver cymbal sands, like a man in a thicket. Somehow, I pressed the play button, and out came my baby sister’s voice, and Chambers heard, miffed, and hit harder, and knocked a cymbal down beside me, felled it with one stroke, and that sent me packing, recorder shut off, head down, ears aslant.
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From Like Buddha-Calm Bird, by Kevin Rabas
Weekend Gig We come to the roundabouts at the edge of town— Highway 50 to central Kansas, the turnpike (I-335) to Lawrence. We’re headed to the blue dot, trunk loaded full of drums, a brushes gig— snare drum and cajón. Inside, our suitcases stacked next to our son. We’ll crash at my parents’ when the gig’s done. We’ve been at it 12 years now, once a month, the music— a breath, a drug, the only kind of party I’ve ever loved, been any good at, done.
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From Like Buddha-Calm Bird, by Kevin Rabas
New Tune One plucked note, then two strummed, Lisa makes her slow way through a new tune. Notes first; words later. I listen to her hum.
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From Like Buddha-Calm Bird, by Kevin Rabas
Patsy That morning, when the senate gavel comes down, wood on wood, the sanded clap to order, the call, Patsy’s not there, she who’s always early, always there, she who rode a Sinclair dinosaur from Hutch into the statehouse, her float with the slogan, “Make the Brownback agenda extinct,” she who cast one of 88 votes to override the governor’s income tax veto, and won, celebrated with the post, “You’re waking up in a Kansas where the Brownback experiment has ended. Good morning.” But Patsy did not make it long into that new dawn. As with the old, who make it through winter, only to pass at the first of spring, so, too, with Patsy. Her voice, her vote lasts, though, like so many careful words placed on a page. * Patsy Terrell’s Hutchinson parade float featured her attached with reins to a Sinclair brontosaurus painted white and dressed in Democrat blue. Patsy was a writer and marketing consultant before turning to Kansas politics. She was 55.
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From Like Buddha-Calm Bird, by Kevin Rabas
The slow turn of the wind turbines, grey giants near Salina, blades like propellers, idling, pulled by Kansas wind; the breath of God comes in a cloud; an open mouth whistles over and past tall grasses, from dust, remakes the world.
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