Pow wows, fat cats, and other Indian tales

Two-Rivers, E. Donald

Mammoth Publications

Langston Hughes in Lawrence: Photographs and Biographical Resources

Denise Low

Barry Barnes is aware of the place around him Lawrence, Kansas, the boyhood home of Langston Hughes. Like Hughes, he finds social inequities rooted in human flaws. He critiques the war in Iraq, the wash of media blather, poverty, and racism. He also celebrates the music, the landscape, and the warmth of family ties.This collection of performance poetry and reflections showcases the enormous talent of Barry Barnes.

We Sleep In A Burning House

Barnes, Barry

Diane Glancy, an author of Cherokee heritage, writes from the viewpoint of a feminist, postcolonial, literary-nationalist, Christian, and American. As she balances her own complex identity, she mirrors the diverse perspectives of 21st century citizens. She occupies multiple histories and landscapes but never forgets allegiance to truth. In The Driven World, she creates an original vision of North America, pieced from real and invented historic documents, museum artifacts, and field notes. Language itself becomes a transformative tool, as it shapes an emerging myth. "Diane Glancy has established herself as one of the country's most versatile and prolific writers. Distinguished by her laconic honesty, she presents Native American life-especially the ways it intersects with nonnative culture-in all its complexity and nuance." Jessica Bennett, Univ. of North Dakota site

The Driven World

Literature & Fiction

Glancy, Diane

Poetry

Rain Comes Riding

Sheldon, William

Stephen Meats, master craftsman, presents a stunning, long-awaited collection of short fiction and poetry. His vision creates new myths for the central plains region. He moves gracefully among images and memories, surely defining human dimensions of his geography and of his times.Followers of Stephen Meats' work know to expect a passion for place-Kansas wind and sky; for family, its rewards and terrors; for the surreal in all its audacity and forays into the dark.Stephen Meats lives in Pittsburg, Kansas, with his wife, Ann, three Boston Terriers, seven cats, and six hives of bees. He has served as poetry editor of The Midwest Quarterly since 1985. Meats has published one book of poems, Looking for the Pale Eagle (1993). His poems and stories have appeared in numerous journals, including Kansas Quarterly, The Quarterly, Tampa Review, Arete: The Journal of Sport Literature, Hurãkan, Flint Hills Review, Prairie Poetry, Dos Passos Review, Angel Face, and The Laughing Dog, and in the anthologies Kansas Stories (1989), Begin Again (2011), and To the Stars Through Difficulties (2012). He is currently Professor of English at Pittsburg State University

Dark Dove Descending and Other Parables

Meats, Stephen

Literary

Diane Glancy's new book of verse experiments with biography as lyric. She shares the compelling story of her Cherokee father's work in a meatpacking plant. She selects memories and images that dramatize his story, one that speaks to me because my Native grandfather also worked in the same meatpacking plant in Kansas City. This is poor people's work, dangerous and physically difficult. This is the backdrop for Glancy's book-length meditation on children's resilience, families, loss, survival, and faith. This is one of Glancy's most emotional and effective compositions. Diane Glancy is the award-winning author of 30 books of poetry, prose, and drama. Her film Dome of Heaven was shown at the Los Angeles Skins Film Festival and other national venues. She is professor at Azusa Pacific University. "The speaker in Glancy's work articulates the importance of knowing her past, of searching it out, of celebrating it, for it is this past that mends the loneliness and fragmentation that she feels in the present. By bringing it all in, all together, the speaker finds continual, albeit temporary, restoration." Molly McGlennen, Studies in American Indian Literature

IT WAS THEN: Diagram of the elemental

Maggie's Story: Teachings of a Cherokee Healer

Teachings of a Cherokee spiritual person occur spontaneously, not in formal classrooms. Often these lessons are passed on verbally from mother (or grandmother) to daughter or father to son. Pamela Dawes Tambornino shares her grandmother's knowledge of language, herbal cures, animals, and people. She shows how the entire life of a healer is a text to be pondered, as well as nature and its processes. She recalls her childhood lessons, beginning at age six and continuing into her early teens. As the author reflects upon her grandmother, she brings to life the humor and the generosity that made her grandmother a healer respected by her Oklahoma family and community. Tambornino, an enrolled member of Cherokee Nation, follows her grandmother's lead as she entertains her readers and also, indirectly, instructs them.

Biographies & Memoirs

Tambornino, Pamela Dawes

Community & Culture

Lana Wirt Myers's biography of May Williams Ward reestablishes the reputation of this leading poet who lived 1882 to 1975. She was celebrated by Harriet Monroe of Poetry magazine; she was a fellow at MacDowell Colony; and she won awards from the Poetry Society of America. Among the national publications that carried her work were Nation, New York Times, Life, New York Sun, Ladies Home Journal, and Good Housekeeping. Numerous Kansas newspapers and literary publications also featured some of the two thousand poems she wrote during her career. In addition, she herself was an editor of the national poetry magazine The Harp. Ward was born in Missouri, grew up in Osawatomie, and spent the majority of her life in Wellington. She graduated from the University of Kansas and briefly was principal of the Osawatomie high school. After marriage, however, she turned to poetry. Through correspondence and some travel, she participated in the national literary experience. Within her home state, she promoted poetry and literature by establishing the Poetry Society of Kansas and serving as the Kansas Authors Club president."Enhanced by Myers' biographical detail, wonderfully illustrated with photographs and Ward's own block prints, this book captures the essence of a Kansas poet who captured the essence of Kansas, and her own life and times in the state. An incredible addition to Kansas literary writing, this book restores Ward to her place among our finest poets."   --Thomas Fox Averill, Writer-in-residence, Washburn University

Prairie Rhythms: The Life and Poetry of May Williams Ward

Myers, Lana Wirt

Arts & Literature

Glamour: Poems

Holden, Jonathan

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