On December 17, the third and last volume of Mark Wentling’s three-volume book, Africa Memoir, was published.
District 2 Member Kerry Moyer will appear on KPTS Channel 8's Positively Kansas. Outside of the Wichita TV market, the program can be found here. KPTS says the link to Moyer's episode will be added shortly after the airing on Channel 8. For those living in Wichita, Garden City, Hays, Goodland, and surrounding areas, the program will air on KPTS this Friday (5/17) at 8:00 p.m. (7 Mountain).
Emporia, KS - Meadowlark Books (D2) is pleased to announce the release of three new titles by Kansas Authors Club members. All three will begin shipping in September and are currently available for purchase from the Meadowlark Bookstore. https://squareup.com/market/meadowlark-books/
The titles will soon be available via bookstores, including Amazon. The publisher encourages readers to order the books through their favorite local independent bookstore or direct from the authors. Joann Williams (D2) has served as Kansas Authors Club D2 president and state president. She has been an entrepreneur, a real estate broker, a paralegal, a healthcare lobbyist in Washington D.C., as well as wife, mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother. Her first book, Memoirs of the Dysfunctional?, depicts the unconventional, but necessary lifestyle, and results, of a family forced to live a somewhat nomadic existence because the father, who was blinded as a child, had no means of support other than working as a street musician. Kevin Rabas (D2) is currently serving at the Kansas Poet Laureate. Like Buddha-Calm Bird is his newest collection of poems and stories. Roy J. Beckemeyer (D5) has served as Kansas Authors Club D5 president and state president. Stage Whispers is Roy's 3rd collection of poetry. District 2 member, Curtis Becker, announces the release of his new book, He Watched and Took Note. There will be a release party at Ellen Plumb's City Bookstore in Emporia on August 17, from 5:30 to 7:00.
Curtis Becker Books State President (and district 2 member) Ronda Miller appeared with Olive Sullivan (district 3) and Izzy Wasserstein at a reading in Pittsburg on July 21. The event was attended by KOAM television (view at this link: http://www.koamtv.com/clip/14507048/book-launch-10pm-7-21) All three poets are published by Meadowlark Books (district 2 member) of Emporia.
Happy National Poetry Month! I’m thrilled to announce that my chapbook Consolation Prize is going to be published by Finishing Line Press! Do you have a moment to take a look, and maybe preorder a copy?
Consolation Prize, a sort of spiritual follow-up to my earlier short collection Traumas (Yellow Flag P, 2017), found its roots in both personal experience and the art of good friend Taryn Möller Nicoll. This new work touches on the death of my identical twin brother Cody, as well as other events. Taryn’s artwork is informed by the surgeries she witnessed as the Artist in Residence at the LSU Neuroscience Center. Several poems in Consolation Prize were written for and displayed at Taryn’s art exhibition Chronicle & Character. She also graced the chapbook’s cover with one of her excellent collage works. Here’s what writers have to say about Consolation Prize: Tyler Sheldon’s Consolation Prize shifts the prism of language to a modality of lyric vignettes. He tells tales of mortality, like that of his twin who died at birth. He celebrates beauty of rain and survival. About scars he writes, “some stretch to fit / the holes we make / in our hearts.” This poet pulls readers into a richly textured alternative reality that refracts wisdom. ~ Denise Low, author of Shadow Light,Red Mountain Press Editor’s Choice Prize winner The poems in Tyler Robert Sheldon’s Consolation Prize render the traumas of premature infant death and car wrecks into a beautiful music of grief and relatedness. The verses brim with imagination and wit, and, like the benevolent shark that appears in one of the poems, they show us a way through an unfixable human condition. ~ Donald Levering, winner of the Robinson Jeffers Tor House Prize and author of Coltrane’s God and The Water Leveling with Us An interview about Consolation Prize at The Chapbook Interview: http://thechapbookinterview.com/2018/04/25/tyler-robert-sheldon-2/ You can order online from Finishing Line Press here, or by copying this link into your browser: https://www.finishinglinepress.com/product/consolation-prize-by-tyler-robert-sheldon/ If you prefer, you can send a check or money order for $14.99 plus shipping (payable to Finishing Line Press) to: Finishing Line Press Post Office Box 1626 Georgetown, KY. 40324 If you’ve already ordered Consolation Prize, thanks a bunch! You’re the best. Also, would you please consider passing along a copy of the attached order form to a friend who might be interested in the collection? Please note that if you order during the pre-publishing period (before August 3, 2018), shipping is only $2.99 per copy! By ordering Consolation Prize, you aren’t just gaining a collection of deeply contemplative poems—you’re also allowing Finishing Line Press to increase the press run of this chapbook. Each copy purchased by August 3 will contribute to a greater print run. In other words, you’ll be an advocate for the Arts by helping bring more poetry into the world. That’s a decision to be proud of. A not-very-well-kept secret: shipping gets cheaper as you go! When ordering multiple copies by mail, shipping is $2.99 for the first copy and way less ($1.99) for each additional copy. All orders will ship starting August 3, 2018. Robert F. Sommer has published, Losing Francis: Essays on the Wars at Home (Fomite Press, 2018). Here are a couple of blurbs and the cover photo (attached):
“Both harrowing and lovely, Losing Francis is a vibrant, indispensable document of life in our time.” –Whitney Terrell, author of The Good Lieutenant “Sommer’s prose often rises to the poetic, his storytelling is poignant yet never sentimental, and his unflinching honesty in relating his son’s life and death leave the reader with a lump in the throat and a righteous anger. Losing Francis will surely take its earned place in the lamentably-large library of great literature of the home front.” —Jeanetta Calhoun Mish, Oklahoma State Poet Laureate 2017-18, author of What I Learned at the War Michael D. Graves, District 2, Emporia, has published the second novel in the Pete Stone Private investigator series, Shadow of Death (Meadowlark Books). The first book, To Leave a Shadow, was a 2016 Kansas Notable Book.
"When a cop killer strikes Wichita, Pete Stone, Private Investigator, is on the case. He has to be. He wakes up in jail, battered and bruised and accused of a murder he’s almost certain he didn’t commit. He must prove his innocence before he’s abandoned by his clients, his friends, and one special lady. When Stone is not getting knocked around by cops, he’s getting roughed up by love." Tracy Million Simmons, District 2, Emporia, published a collection of short stories titled, A Life in Progress and Other Short Stories.
In this collection of short stories, Simmons captures slices of life, glimpses of everyday people and everyday thoughts and actions, and the many moments — touching, amusing, happy, and sad — of lives in progress. This book is an intimate peek into a writer’s stash, written across the decades, an experience of timelessness and the human condition. Through fiction, these stories reveal relatable truths. About the book, Cheryl Unruh writes: “Tracy Million Simmons shows clearly the moving parts of relationships. Her stories reveal the irreversible ties of family. She shows the push-and-pull between spouses, between parent and child, between dear friends, and we see how we’re all recklessly and joyfully bound one to another.” |
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