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The Cosmic Lost & Found If there's a cosmic lost and foundand you know where to find itthen you know where I'll beheaped on top of a pileof discarded whateverslost glovesand scarves and hatsan inexplicable bathrobea number of solo socksyour copy of the Tao te Chingby Ursula le Guinthe necklace you stolefrom your motherthat reminded herof your fatherthe keys to the lockon your gloveboxbut not whateveris trapped in there. I'm sifting through boththings utterly forgotten and thingsthat plague you with the naggingquestion of where you left them. I sit on an infinity of bobby pinsand rubber bandsthe frame containingall but the senior year photosof your son, even the onewhere he wore the aubergine beretthere's your ring in the shapeof a leaping horse Nicki lostthere's the leather belt you tooledin 8th grade shop class with the lettersR O Y, for your grandfathercentered between filigreeson my lap is the white catthat ran away one springwho had white eyes and a fat bellylying with his head on my kneeis your golden retrieverwhich your step-father soldfor killing the grass along the fence-linewhere he ran and ran. My bed is made of all the junk mailnever read and never missedand notebooks lost with onlya few front pages filled withthe insecure marks of hesitant youthsomewhere around hereis your first Danzig cassettethat Bob Dylan posterand the tape with your father's voicewhich you never did listen toall the way throughbecause it made you cry so hard. There I am adriftamidst these oddmentsthe keeper of the left behindthe recorder of what's missing. There's me whistlinga little tuneyou made upwhen you were nineabout the cloudsand the horses. There's mewaiting to be found. -Jeanette Powers

Karl Dean, from the Central Great Plains along the Smoky Hill River, perceived a vision perusing through an old cellar at the impressionable age of seven, mani-festing this insightful phantasm into poetry. Karl Dean, also a professional abstract artist, has been published in one anthology Tears of Fire (Watermark Press, 1993) and in the Lawrence Journal World twice.

Daniel W. Wright is an award-nominated poet and fiction writer. He most recently wrote the foreword for Sacred Decay: The Art of Lauren Marx (Dark Horse, 2021). He is the author of eight collections of poetry, including Love Letters from the Underground (Spartan Press, 2021), Rodeo of the Soul (Spartan Press, 2019), and Murder City Special (Bad Jacket, 2017). His work has appeared in print journals such as The Literary Parrot, BUK100, 365 Days, and Gasconade Review, as well as online journals such as Book of Matches. He currently resides in St. Louis, MO, where you can usually find him in a bar or a bookstore.Jim McGowin has a background in media communications and visual art. He prefers to create cool stuff, but keeps a day job. His poems have been published in Chance Operations, The UCity Review, Rusty Truck and The Gasconade Review. He is the author of several chapbooks of poetry and the collection Murmuration, published in 2018 by Spartan Press. He lives in St. Louis, Missouri with his family and two cats.Denmark Laine is a St. Louis poet, novelist and music critic whose work has been featured on Fox 2 KTVI, Subprimal Poetry, STL TV Live, the St. Louis Poetry Slam, Eleven Magazine, Bad Jacket and Book of Matches to name a few. He has a BFA in nothing from Southern Illinois University Edwardsville with a minor in miming and is the author of Exile On Cherokee Street, The Gods of Autumn, Thorazine Ice Cream Parlor and The Absinthe Fountain.Jessie Eikmann lives in south St. Louis, where she stocks shelves at a supermarket and occasionally screws around with writing. Though she mostly writes as a hobby these days, she spent six years obsessively devoted to poetry, culminating in her MFA from the University of Missouri-St. Louis in 2019. Her work has appeared in Sou'wester and Unbroken Magazine. Bad Jacket Press published a chapbook of her poems, The Kiss of Complicity, which she describes as "letters to all the people who disappointed me in my life." Jessie may or may not publish any more work soon, as she lacks professional ambition and does not care what content is "appropriate" for highbrow magazines. Post-MFA, she has spent most of her time cooking fancy vegetarian food, haunting her local gym, volunteering with her labor union and the Communist party, and seeking out various sexual dalliances on OKCupid.S. Elizabeth Cook is an award-winning author and poet of four published poetry collections, the most recent being Yellow Light. A true romantic, S. Elizabeth has spent nearly a decade writing about and capturing the raw existence of humans, nature and love. She believes there is beauty in heartache and a deflating pain in love, and that one must fall to let it hurt.Mack Thorn is poet from St. Louis, Missouri. Growing up he has lived in almost every corner, nook, and cranny of his home town. Worked a broad array of conventional and unconventional jobs like drug rehabilitation and dry wall hanging. He also spent 6 years in the navy reserve. Published works in Badjacket zine and the Whiskey Rye Review.

Denmark Laine is a St. Louis poet and novelist whose work has been featured on Fox 2 KTVI, Subprimal Poetry, STL TV Live, the St. Louis Poetry Slam, Eleven Magazine and Bad Jacket. He is a graduate of Southern Illinois University Edwardsville with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Theatre. He is the author of The Gods of Autumn, Exile On Cherokee Street and Smalltown Kings.

Glenn North is currently serving as a consultant for Education and Community Programs at the Black Archives of Mid America while also pursuing an MFA in Creative Writing at the University of Missouri - Kansas City. He is a Cave Canem fellow, a Callaloo creative writing fellow and a recipient of the Charlotte Street Generative Performing Artist Award and the Crystal Field Poetry Award. Glenn provided the poetic narration for the award winning film short, May This Be Love and did a guest appearance on the popular ABC family drama, Lincoln Heights. He has shared the stage with many legendary African American poets including Nikki Giovanni, Sonia Sanchez and Amiri Baraka. His work has appeared in Kansas City Voices, One Shot Deal, The Sixth Surface, Caper Literary Journal, Platte Valley Review, Kansas City Voices, Cave Canem Anthology XII, The African American Review, and American Studies Journal. He also collaborated with legendary jazz musician on the critically acclaimed recording project, Check Cashing Day.

"For those who may think poetry is obtuse and boring, In Pearl Broth: Poems New & Selected will shake that notion free. Rikki Santer's poems are chock-full of vibrant language that evokes responses in both the busy mind and the quiet heart of the reader: piffling questions multiply like maggots . . . the mall tilts on its axis . . .we like handcuffing matters down . . . secret bag of caramels in a lingerie drawer . . . little swords of wheat . . . fuzzy-hearted commas . . . a marimba of alchemy . . . canape¿s of flummery . . . my museum of desperate clues. These poems stopped me in my tracks more than a few times. So moved by "A Swift and Fatal Plunge", I spent an evening reading about the tragic event that inspired Santer's stunning narrative. The notes I kept while reading In Pearl Broth will surely serve to inspire my own poem-making."-Susan F. Glassmeyer, Invisible Fish; 2018 Ohio Poet of the Year

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Jason Ryberg is the author of fourteen books of poetry,six screenplays, a few short stories, several angry lettersto various magazine and newspaper editors, and a boxfull of folders, notebooks and scraps of paper that couldone day be (loosely) construed as a novel. He is currentlyan artist-in-residence at both The Prospero Institute ofDisquieted P/o/e/t/i/c/s and the Osage Arts Community.He lives part-time in Kansas City with a rooster namedLittle Red and a billygoat named Giuseppe and part-time somewhere in the Ozarks, near the GasconadeRiver, where there are also many strange and wonderfulwoodland critters.

Robert L. Dean, Jr.'s work has appeared in Flint Hills Review, I-70 Review, The Ekphrastic Review, Illya's Honey, Red River Review, River City Poetry, Heartland! Poetry of Love, Resistance & Solidarity, and the Wichita Broadside Project. He read at the 13th Annual Scissortail Creative Writing Festival in April 2018 at East Central University in Ada, Oklahoma, and the Chikaskia Literary Festival 2018 at Northern Oklahoma College, Tonkawa campus. His haibun placed first at Poetry Rendezvous 2017. He was a finalist in the 2014 Dallas Poets Community chapbook contest and a quarter- finalist in the 2018 Nimrod Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry contest. He is event coordinator for Epistrophy: An Afternoon of Poetry and Improvised Music held annually in Wichita, Kansas. He has been a professional musician and worked at The Dallas Morning News. He is a member of the Kansas Authors Club and lives in a one-hundred-year-old stone building in Augusta, Kansas, along with a universe of several hundred books, CDs, LPs, two electric basses and a couple dozen hats.

Mike James makes his home outside Nashville, Tennessee. He has published in numerous magazines throughout the country in such places as Plainsongs, Laurel Poetry Review, Birmingham Poetry Review, and Chiron Review. His poetry collections include: Parades (Alien Buddha), Jumping Drawbridges in Technicolor (Blue Horse), First-Hand Accounts from Made-Up Places (Stubborn Mule), Crows in the Jukebox (Bottom Dog), My Favorite Houseguest (FutureCycle), and Peddler's Blues (Main Street Rag.) He served as an associate editor of The Kentucky Review and currently serves as an associate editor of Unbroken.

Mackenzie Thorn is poet from St. Louis, Missouri. Growing up he has lived in almost every corner, nook, and cranny of his home town. Worked a broad array of conventional and unconventional jobs like drugrehabilitation and dry wall hanging. He also spent 6 years in the Navy reserve. Published works in Badjacket zine and the Whiskey Rye Review.

Marybeth Niederkorn is an award-winning journalist, essayist, and author. Educated at Southeast Missouri State University, she holds a bachelor's degree in philosophy and a master's in professional writing, but tries not to be a jerk about it. She lives in Missouri with her awesome husband, Dave, and their two obstreperous cats. This is her first book.

We all need a spark from time to time to get us moving in a certain direction. This book is that spark, full of easy to implement ideas get you going from the first page so you see results immediately. What are you waiting for?"A cacophony of slap-your-head-obvious advice for those who have forgotten how life and work should be artistic: from rebooting your morning, taking digital sabbaticals to examples on how to ignite imagination. This book is a rallying cry for us all to embrace our innate curiousity and prioritise our creative education again (as adults)." DK, Creative Producer / Speaker Coach - justadandak.com "This little gem inspires small actions designed to move the reader along the path of creativity. Hodges challenges us with mini-experiments that he has explored personally. His delightful storytelling provides that little push that we all need to ignite change. Do yourself a favor and join along." Elaine Bernstorf, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, Professor of Music Education at Wichita State University"Dennis' guide to igniting creativity is an engaging approach to shaking the reader from their daily routine. His insights and direction provide an easy to navigate path for anyone wanting to spark a little creative energy in their lives." Brad Anderson, Director of Arts & Humanities, Salina, KS

Americana songwriter and Kansas-City-based storyteller K.W. Peery is the author of eight poetry collections: Tales of a Receding Hairline; Purgatory; Wicked Rhythm; Ozark Howler; Gallatin Gallows; Howler Holler; Bootlegger's Bluff; Cockpit Chronicles. He is founder and co-editor of The Angel's Share Literary Magazine (Shine Runner Press). His work is included in the Vincent Van Gogh Anthology Resurrection of a Sunflower, The Cosmic Lost and Found: An Anthology of Missouri Poets (Spartan Press), Best of Mad Swirl Anthology 2018 and the Walsall Poetry Society Anthology, Diverse Verse II & III. Credited as a lyricist and producer, Peery's work appears on more than twenty studio albums over the past decade. Website: www.kwpeery.com

Steven Sassmann is the author of seven books of poems and poetry. His next book will be out in Spring 2019 from Spartan Press. His is published in magazines like Chiron Review, and in anthologies like Men in the Company of Women, by online magazines like Wingposse Art, and has done a series of poems on High Plains Public Radio. Steven has evolved a new style of poetry which uses large font Interior Titles, innovative punctuation and color. He aims for brevity and wit, and favors content over style and form. He draws a distinction between poems and poetry and usually writes unintentionally. He writes for the nonAcademic-who may need poetry most. He lives in Smith Center, Kansas with his wife, Mary.

"Jason Ryberg's poems ought to be tackled in front of a plate of runny eggs and hashbrowns, late night in some greasy spoon diner where you can still smoke cigarettes, where truck drivers and salesmen with briefcases full of drugs and lewd secrets and the murderers from Capote's In Cold Blood all might stop to eat on the same night, under a moon "like the atomically radiant skull / of a bald and diabolical clown." His books should come pre-worn, covers already tattered and stained with unidentified life fluids, favorite pages scribbled on and half-loosed from the binding. Each of Ryberg's lines should be read in a gargle-y, Tom Waitsian rumble that embodies the boogeymen that hide inside his images. Folks, this stuff is weird, wild. And even better, this stuff is good."-Justin Hamm,

Michael Poage was born in Virginia and has lived in New England, California, Montana and overseas in Latvia and Bosnia and Herzegovina. He has ten collections of poems published prior to this new book. He worked various jobs before becoming ordained in the United Church of Christ and serving three congregations in Kansas. He has also taught at Friends University, Wichita State University, the University of Latvia and Dzemal Bijedic University in Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina, where he also served as Poet-in-Residence in 2017-18. When not in Bosnia and Herzegovina, he and his wife, the historian and writer, Dr. Gretchen Eick, live in Wichita, Kansas.

Shawn Pavey has delivered newspapers, mowed lawns, bagged groceries, cut meat, laid sewer pipe, bussed tables, washed dishes, roofed houses, crunched numbers, rented cars, worked in hotels, worn an apron at Kinko's, and been paid to write everything from re¿sume¿s to music reviews. Currently, he earns a living as an Executive Recruiter in Mission, KS where he lives with his wife and two worthless but adorable cats. He is the author of Talking to Shadows (2008, Main Street Rag Press) and Nobody Steals the Towels from a Motel 6 (2015, Spartan Press), Co-founder and former Associate Editor of The Main Street Rag Literary Journal, and a former board member and officer of The Writers Place, a Kansas City-based literary non-profit. His poems, essays, and journalism appear in a variety of national and regional publications. He's hosted poetry readings in bars, coffee shops, haunted houses, bookstores, libraries, front porches, seedy motel rooms, and abandoned warehouses. A graduate of the University of North Carolina's Undergraduate Honors Creative Writing Program, he likes his Tom Waits loud, his bourbon single-barrel, and his basketball Carolina Blue.

Al Ortolani's newest collection of poetry, On the Chicopee Spur, was released from New York Quarterly Books in 2018. How Wally Lost His Thumb and the Boy Scouts Became Cannibals, a mix of old and new "Wally poems" also appeared from Spartan Press the same year. A previous collection, Ghost Sign, co-authored with J.T. Knoll, Adam Jameson, and Melissa Fite Johnson was selected as a Kansas Notable Book for 2017. In 2019, Ortolani was a winner of the Rattle Chapbook Series Award. He is the Manuscript Editor for Woodley Press in Topeka, Kansas, and has directed a memoir writing project for Vietnam veterans across Kansas in association with the Library of Congress and Humanities Kansas. After 43 years of teaching English in public schools, he currently lives a life without bells and fire drills in the Kansas City area.