An Interview with Missouri State Poet Laureate, Karen Craigo By Molly Bess Rector The following interview was conducted via Slack on May 26, 2020 MBR: Hi Karen! How are you today? KC: I'm great! How are you? MBR: I'm doing well. It's gorgeous weather here—one of those porch-sitting days. KC: It's nice here, too, in a cloudy way. Perfect … [Read more...] about An Interview with Missouri State Poet Laureate, Karen Craigo
The Guestroom Novelist: A Donald Harington Miscellany. Edited by Brian Walters. (University of Arkansas Press, 2019, Pp. 319) Reviewed by Mark Spitzer In the interest of full disclosure, I should first mention that I am a University of Arkansas Press author and a die-hard convert to the Unorthodox Church of Donald Harington, who is my all-time favorite novelist. After … [Read more...] about Book Review: The Guestroom Novelist
The First Day By John Mort I hadn’t driven that little Nissan for almost five years but it ran nice. My brother kept it for me while I was away. She took the big Ford SUV and it was a fine car, all right, but nothing I wanted. The little Nissan was economical and never caused any trouble. An hour after sunset I parked between two big trucks and walked slowly through … [Read more...] about The First Day (Fiction)
Sucker Flats By Matt McGowan Two days before Thanksgiving, Patsy and I were sitting in the office and arguing about stuffing. You have to cook it inside the cavity of the turkey, I told her, or you can’t call it stuffing, but she just kept on about a fancy casserole she’d learned from her sister-in-law in Oklahoma City. It’s not stuffing then, I countered. “Fine,” said … [Read more...] about Sucker Flats (Fiction)
The Future of Beekeeping in the Missouri Ozarks: Lack of Forage and the Proliferation of Pests and Pesticides By Faith Collins After a tour of almost 3000 miles through the Missouri Ozarks, Michael Myer, a commercial beekeeper for 47 years, reported that he saw “no backyard beehives.” The basic reason for few beehives in the Ozarks, according to bee experts George S. … [Read more...] about The Future of Beekeeping in the Missouri Ozarks: Lack of Forage and the Proliferation of Pests and Pesticides