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Sneezing Coyotes

Posted on October 22, 2021 by Steve Semken

Sneezing Coyotes | Salvatore Marici | $19.99 | 9781948509312 | Poetry | Travel | Interview with Writer’s Voices Read the Toasted Cheese piece Read book review Review at Toasted Cheese Engaging interview on WVIK-NPR on Talking Art A short interesting interview with the author on Des Moines’ Culture Buzz Show Watch this interview with the […]

The History of Orthodontics Through Time & Space

Posted on August 12, 2021 by Steve Semken

Long time Midwest artists Craig Campbell and Priscilla Steele give us a unique, entertaining, colorful, and fascinating take on a seemingly everyday topic—devising a fully transformed adventure full of magic and charm. There are stories all around us and this one moves from the heart of creativity … […]

Moon of the Snow Blind

Posted on August 3, 2021 by Steve Semken

The Spirit Lake Incident in March of 1857 was a dark moment in Midwestern History, incited by indigenous resistance to their loss of homeland culture, and people. A number of white settlers in northwest Iowa’s lakes region were killed. Four female survivors were taken by lnkpaduta and his band of Dakota Sioux. […]

Our Friend Sitting Bull

Posted on July 13, 2021 by Steve Semken

A long journey to homestead and in pioneer spirit the Dell’s moved from Iowa to the Dakota territory. Travel, food, children and hardships awaited them as they worked to achieve their dreams. Along the way, a friendship developed with well-known Lakota Chief Sitting Bull. A humble and educational story. […]

Wyman and the Florida Knights

Posted on June 30, 2021 by Steve Semken

Birds In The Morning

Posted on April 9, 2021 by Steve Semken

Lyrical meditations on rural life braided with observations from her global public health and medical practice with struggles raising an autistic son and all the beauty and challenges brought by the creatures that surround her wild Iowa home. An instant environmental classic. An updated Leopold Land Ethics book. […]

I May or May Not Love You

Posted on November 21, 2019 by Steve Semken

David Perkins | ISBN 9781948509152 | $19.99 | 136p | gatefold paper Read all about the book below and WATCH (and listen to) the wonderful book trailer. “I want you to step easily into me and feel comfortable and calm, though storms may be going on, and touch the reachable in ways your mind will […]

Corn Poll: A Novel of the Iowa Caucuses

Posted on February 21, 2015 by Steve Semken

Every four years the United States of America’s candidates for President bend over backwards to ingratiate themselves to Iowa’s first-in-the-nation voters. Some big-name contenders uproot friends and family and move to the Hawkeye State in an attempt to win the ultimate electoral prize. Others devote six months of their lives to crisscrossing the state in […]

SCHOOLHOUSE

Posted on February 16, 2015 by Steve Semken