Missouri State-West Plains

Garnett Library

 

Friday, June 2

 

11:00 C. D. Albin

Dr. Albin is a professor of English at Missouri State-West Plains. He has published a short-story collection, Hard Toward Home, and a poetry collection, Axe, Fire, Mule. He received the Missouri Author Award from the Missouri Library Association in 2017.

 

12:00 Phillip Howerton

Dr. Howerton is a professor of English at Missouri State-West Plains. He has published a poetry collection, The History of Tree Roots, and an anthology, The Literature of the Ozarks. He received the 2019 Missouri Literary Award.

 

1:00 Amy Wright Vollmar

Vollmar is a retired elementary school teacher. Her poetry has appeared in Elder Mountain and Cave Region Review, and her first book of poetry, Follow, was published by Cornerpost Press in 2020. Activities for kids!

 

2:00 James Fowler

Dr. Fowler teaches literature at the University of Central Arkansas. His poetry collection, The Pain Trader, was released by Golden Antelope Press in 2019, and his short story collection, Field Trip, was published by Cornerpost Press in 2022.

 

3:00 Agnes Vojta

Agnes Vojta teaches physics at Missouri University of Science and Technology. She is the author of three poetry collections: Porous Land, The Eden of Perhaps, and A Coracle for Dreams.

 

 

Saturday, June 3

 

11:00 Anthony Priest

Priest is a professor of English at Missouri State-West Plains. He is the editor of Yonder Mountain: An Ozarks Anthology. His poetry collection, Until the Bridge, is scheduled to be released in the fall of 2023.

 

1:00 Wendy Taylor Carlisle

Carlisle is the author of four poetry collections: Reading Berryman to the Dog (2000), Discount Fireworks (2008), On the Way to the Promised Land Zoo (2019), and The Mercy of Traffic (2019).

 

2:00 Jim Hamilton

Hamilton is a retired newspaper editor and continues to write a column, Ozarks RFD, for regional newspapers, including the West Plains Quill. Several of his essays were collected in River of Used to Be and Ozarks RFD: Selected Essays.

 

3:00 Gerry Sloan

Sloan is a retired music professor living in Fayetteville. He has published five chapbooks and two full-length poetry collections: Paper Lanterns and Crossings: A Memoir in Verse.

 

4:30 Brooks Blevins

Dr. Blevins is the Noel Boyd Professor of Ozarks Studies at Missouri State University. He is the author of the three-volume A History of the Ozarks, the definitive history of our region. He is also the author or editor of ten other books.