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February 17, 5:00

Steve Wiegenstein

"Missouri's Utopian Communities"

Rolla Public Library

 

February 26, 7:00 pm

Agnes Vojta

Spine Bookstore & Cafe

St. Louis 

 

March 4, 10;00-2:00

Poplar Bluff Library Author Fair

 

March 10, 6:30 pm

Wendy Taylor Carlisle, Paulette Guerin, Gerry Sloan reading from Wild Muse

Pearl's Books

28 E Center St

Fayetteville, AR

 

March 18, 1:00

Phillip Howerton

Dallas County Historical Society

Buffalo, MO

 

March 23, 10:00 am

Phillip Howerton

Ozark Historium

Gainesville, MO

http://www.ozarkcountyhistory.org/events.html

 

March 27-29 (Time TBA)

John J. Han

Lucidity Ozarks Poetry Retreat

Lecture on poetry (haibun and tanka prose) and a reading of some poems from Wild Muse

Best Western Inn Of the Ozarks, Eureka Springs, AR

 

April 15 (Time TBA)

Agnes Vojta, John J. Han, Amy Wright Vollmar, Wendy Taylor Carlisle, and Phillip Howerton reading from Wild Muse

Ozark Research Field Station

16300 County Road

Newburg, MO

 

April 18, 7:00 pm 

Paulette Guerin

University of Central Arkansas 

Slant Visiting Poet Series

https://uca.edu/english/slant-a-journal-of-contemporary-poetry/

 

April 22, 12:00 Noon

Phillip Howerton

Poetry WorkShop

Wild Muse: Ozarks Nature Poetry

Newton County Library

Jasper AR

 

April 29, 11:00 am-4:00 pm

Phillip Howerton and Wendy Taylor Carlisle

Cornerpost Press Table

Cave Region Review Event

North Arkansas college

Harrison, AR

 

May 2, 2:00 pm

Phillip Howerton, Wendy Carlilse, and Gerry Sloan reading from Wild Muse

Donald W. Reynolds Library

300 Library Hill

Mountain Home, AR

 

May 8, 7:00 pm

Agnes Vojta and Phillip Howerton reading from Wild Muse

Gumbo Bottoms Ale House

221 Madison St, Jefferson City, MO

 

May 13, 6:00 pm

Agnes Vojta and Phillip Howerton reading from Wild Muse

Barb's Books

314 S Alvarado Ave, Belle, MO

 

May 23, 7:00 pm

Agnes Vojtas and other Wild Muse poets

Zoom presentation with Gallery Visual Audio Literary Artists Gallery

Literary Artists 2023 (valagallery.org)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Wild Muse: Ozarks Nature Poetry

Release Date: December 11, 2022

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Featuring poetry by C. D. Albin, Wendy Taylor Carlisle, Paulette Guerin, John J. Han, Phillip Howerton, Gerry Sloan, 

Mark Spitzer, Agnes Vojta, and Amy Wright Vollmar

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Foreword by Steve Wiegenstein

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Wild Muse is a collection of contemporary poetry engaging Ozarks nature and environment. Some topics and themes explored here are nature's beauty, sense of place, loss of place, environmental diminishment, and human dependence on nature and its sublime indifference to our existence.

 

Combining the best aspects of chapbooks and anthologies, this "chapthology" features extensive selections from the work of nine Ozarks poets providing readers a generous introduction to the voice, style, and perspectives of each writer. In total, this collection presents almost 200 poems and offers biographical material about each poet, discussion of some poems included, and advice about writing nature-based poetry. 

 

 

Reviews

 

“The poems in this little book remind us that everything about life is ephemeral and to be experienced, endured, celebrated – and remembered, whether it is the sight of a budding plant, a memory of fence building, a flight of geese, or a season of drought.”

Susan Croce Kelly, managing editor of OzarksWatch

 

Wild Muse is a beautiful and at times astonishing collection of contemporary ecopoetry. With the space and depth afforded its wide-ranging poets, few anthologies have so thoroughly captured the spirit of a place the way this book does for the Ozarks. It is thoughtful, provocative, entertaining, and deeply engaging, and each poem invites us to live a moment in the wild world.”

Brian Hardman, University of the Ozarks

 

“Though not immune to the leveling forces of national culture, the Ozarks retains a regional flavor and remarkable biodiversity. The poets in Wild Muse know and live this. They reach deep into place and nature as they serve the region they love.”

Matt McGowan, author of 1971 and North Fork

 

 

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Crytozarkia

Mark Spitzer

Tentative Release Date: January 2023

 

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The Ballad of Johnny Bell

John Mort

Release Date: October 7, 2022

 

 

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Field Trip: Stories

James Fowler

Released January 1, 2022

 

 

 

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Steve Wiegenstein's Scattered Lights has been shortlisted

for the PEN/Faulkner Award

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ozarks Alive Story and Interview

News Story by Steve Yates in Clarion-Ledger / Hattiesburg American Mississippi Books Page

Review by Craig Albin in Elder Mountain: A Journal of Ozarks Studies

Listed among the 25 favorite books of 2020 by the editors of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Review by Aarik McDanielsen in the Columbia Tribune

Review by Dale Singer in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Review by John Mort on Down Along the Piney

Interview with Steve Wiegenstein by Steve Yates at Skylark Bookshop

The New Ozarks Literary Renaissance (Rolla Public Library)

 

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Steve Wiegenstein's short story "Magic Kids," first published in Elder Mountain and now collected in Scattered Lights, received an honorable mention in the Mary Mackey Short Story Prize contest, sponsored by the National League of American Pen Women___________________________________________

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

New Poems by Amy Wright Vollmar in Elder Mountain

Web Links

Review in Elder Mountain

Featured in Missouri Life

Missouri State University News

 

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Jim Hamilton's Ozarks RFD: Selected Essays received the 2020 Best Nonfiction Book Award from the Ozarks Writers League.

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Review of Jim Hamilton's Ozarks RFD

in the October 2020 issue of Roundup Magazine (Western Writers of America)

 

In “A Mind Like a Bucket of Bolts,” Jim Hamilton philosophizes on those collections of nuts and screws a lot of us keep in coffee cans – potentially useful little things you can’t bear to throw away. That’s how his mind works, he says, and his 109 short essays, originally appearing in newspapers from the small Missouri towns of Buffalo and Bolivar, are accordingly eclectic: how mud used to plague small farms; the smells of childhood (new sawdust, horses, smoke); fishing for the fighting carp; the pleasure of wearing overalls; and, though Hamilton eschews any sort of politics, memories of the Kennedy assassination and 9/11. Always nostalgic, Hamilton is homespun without being sentimental. Keep this handy for those times when you need a shot of hard-earned, humble wisdom.

– John Mort

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