Michelle Collins Anderson grew up on a registered Angus cattle farm outside of West Plains, Missouri — a place and a way of life that has shaped her writing. She has a journalism degree from the University of Missouri and an MFA from Warren Wilson College. Her stories have appeared in Nimrod International Journal, Midwestern Gothic, bosque, Literal … [Read more...] about The Flower Sisters (Fiction: An Excerpt)
1961 Ozark Breakaway: The Year McDonald County Seceded from Missouri. By Dwight Pogue. (Independently Published, 2021, Pp. 186) Reviewed by Rocky Macy Rocky Macy grew up in the small tourist town of Noel in the Missouri Ozarks. He is a retired public school educator, state child protection worker, and a licensed clinical civilian social worker with the US military. … [Read more...] about Book Review: 1961 Ozark Breakaway: The Year McDonald County Seceded from Missouri
Extra Innings By Michelle Collins Anderson Michelle Collins Anderson grew up on a registered Angus cattle farm outside of West Plains, Missouri — a place and a way of life that has shaped her writing. She has a journalism degree from the University of Missouri and an MFA from Warren Wilson College. Her stories have appeared in Nimrod International Journal, Midwestern … [Read more...] about Extra Innings (Fiction)
Three Poems By Gerry Sloan Gerry Sloan is a retired music professor living in Fayetteville, Arkansas. Poetry collections include Paper Lanterns (Half Acre Press, 2011), Crossings: A Memoir in Verse (Rollston Press, 2017), and five chapbooks, including one in Mandarin. Recent work has appeared in Xavier Review, Slant, and Cave Region Review (Featured Poet). He can be reached … [Read more...] about Poetry 2021: Gerry Sloan
Hoofprints By Amy Wright Vollmar Deer strike through brush beneath green briars, cross fallen boughs without trying to rearrange the forest’s stones or trim the grapevines to their will, but still they know just how to bind the prairie to the creek, twist the bluestem into sumac. These are the ways of the white-tailed deer, who show me … [Read more...] about Poetry 2021: Amy Wright Vollmar