Ice Cube Press Books

$19.99, 202p, Isbn 9781948509022 NEW: Interview with Betty Moffett at Midwest Gothic NEW: Review of Coming Clean in Flyway “In Coming Clean, Betty Moffett pays homage to the power of storytelling, revealing the glimmer and grit that ripple beneath the stoic exterior of rural America. In prose that’s as clean and inviting as a fresh-swept […]

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Historical Fiction | Paperback | $19.99 | 272 pgs | Isbn 9781888160956 | Ethel Barker In times of trouble one can count on the Heartland for inspiration, lessons, peace, love, and understanding. For the Andersen family, life on the family farm near the small Iowa town of Eden was like its namesake-—paradise. They happily accepted […]

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9781888160222, 92p Writing about place, energy, and politics The Midwest Oil Fields are full of stories. Crude is a manifesto for people battling issues of environmental devastation, Taylor Brorby’s Crude explores what it means to be from and of a place. Through natural history, personal experience, and a sense of awe, these poems explore the […]

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9781888160505, 60 pgs A Standing By Words Essay Buy Direct, or from select stores. Email to be invoiced if you prefer Learn more Huffington Post | Prairie Public Radio | In Coming Alive Taylor Brorby overcomes his trepidations and embraces the most powerful action of all—standing by his words. He commits to what he values most—family, home, […]

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Our Prairie Seed Poetry Prize winner is a collection entitled: The Swagger of Dorothy Gale and Other Filthy Ways to Strut by Sea Sharp. A visceral and sonic world of teeth and tornadoes, Sea Sharp’s The Swagger of Dorothy Gale explores a Midwestern past muddied by L. Frank Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz fantasy […]

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