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Night of the Grizzly
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Blue Sabine
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robert e smith: Paintings, Drawings, Poems, and Stories
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Moon City Review 2011
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Confederate Girlhoods: A Women’s History of Early Springfield, Missouri
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The Panther: Posthumous Poems
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For, From, About James T Whitehead
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The Gillioz “Theatre Beautiful”
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The Heroes Have Gone
03 August 2011 2:53 PM | No Comments - Remembering Michael Burns: A Reading from Night of the Grizzly
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Poetry and Motion: Performances by Inertia Dance Company, Poetry by Michael Burns
Remembering Michael Burns, Poet and Founder of the Missouri State University Creative Writing Program Faculty, alumni, and friends of the Missouri State University English Department remember their long-time teacher and colleague, Michael Burns (1953-2011), who helped found the department’s creative writing program. Though his living voice has passed, his poetry remains. Forthcoming from Moon City Press, Night [...]
Moon City Review 2010
Moon City Review 2010 An Annual of Poetry, Story, Art, and Criticism ISBN 978-0-913785-30-0 6 x 9, 200 pages, 12 illustrations $15.95 paper ISBN 978-0-913785-30-0 Edited by Lanette Cadle and Marcus Cafagña Cover by Eric Pervukhin “Moon City Review will certainly be worth keeping an eye on.” —Sima Rabinowitz, in NewPages The 2010 volume of Moon City Review takes [...]
Yankee Doric: America Before the Civil War
Raffel, Burton. Yankee Doric: America Before the Civil War (A Novel). $29.95 cloth. ISBN 978-0-913785-22-5. Respected nationally as a poet, translator, and critic, Burton Raffel remains best known for his translation of Beowulf, which brought the world of Anglo-Saxon heroism to more than a million readers. With Yankee Doric: America Before the Civil War (forthcoming [...]Great reviews are coming in for Morkan’s Quarry
Reviews so far include the Jackson Star-Ledger, with Joe L. White writing that “Yates takes a father-son saga with a Civil War setting to reflect a much larger picture of man’s inhumanity to man and the formation of character. Indeed, the author initially reveals each limestone monument cut from the cliffs the two Morkan men [...]
Moon City Review 2009: An Annual of Poetry, Story, Art , & Criticism
Moon City Review 2009: An Annual of Poetry, Story, Art, and Criticism Edited by Jane Hoogestraat and Lanette Cadle . Photographs by Julie Blackmon. 6 x 9, 252 pages, 35 illustrations. $15.95 paper, 2009. 978-0-913785-20-1 0-913785-20-2 Moon City Review 2009 is a newly established book annual intermingling poetry, story (both fiction and creative nonfiction), visual [...]
On Living and Dying in West Texas: A Postmodern Scrapbook
On Living and Dying in West Texas: A Postmodern Scrapbook by Jim W. Corder. Edited by James S. Baumlin and Eric Knickerbocker. 6 x 9, 160 pages, 27 photographs and sketches by the author. $15.00 paper, 2008. ISBN 978-0-913785-06-5 | 0-913785-06-7 “Corder’s final memoir makes a significant contribution to the ‘literature of aging.’ [...]
Some of the Words Are Theirs: A Memoir of an Alcoholic Family
Some of the Words Are Theirs: a Memoir of an Alcoholic Family by George Jensen Foreword by William L. White. Springfield, MO: Moon City, 2009. 6 x 9, 400 pages, 18 photographs. $29.95 hardbound. ISBN 978-0-913785-09-6. In Some of the Words Are Theirs: A Memoir of an Alcoholic Family, George H. Jensen, Jr. describes an adult’s search to learn [...]
Morkan’s Quarry: A Novel
Morkan’s Quarry: A Novel by Steve Yates ISBN 978-0-913785-24-9 When editors in New York and elsewhere rejected Steve Yates’s Civil War novel manuscript, the blunt ones told him something about the publisher he needed to find. “When editors were awfully close to publishing the book, many said, roughly, ‘We fear this book has to start [...]
Why Moon City?
There’s a history behind the name, Moon City. In 1867, the long-awaited railroad (key to the Ozarks’ economic future) still had not reached Springfield, and a St. Louis newspaper opined that those in charge had “as much ability to build a railroad to themoon as to Springfield.” In 1870 the railroad did arrive, but not to [...]