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Deep Midwest

Posted on July 11, 2019 by Steve Semken

A deep dive into the Midwest experience through thought-provoking poems, recollections, essays, and vivid stories. Pondering nature and neighbors, bars and commutes […]

Around the World in Eighty Movies

Posted on June 25, 2019 by Steve Semken

In a highly imaginative blend of film locations, memories, and colorful travel essays, Robin Holabird offers an extensive and entertaining exploration of film locations far and wide, close to home […]

Voices After Evelyn

Posted on July 10, 2018 by Steve Semken

… Voices after Evelyn seeks not so much to dig up a cold case—the 1953 disappearance of La Crosse, Wisconsin, babysitter Evelyn Hartley—as reopen its heart. A fugue of voices …“Read more… […]

Road To Waubeek: Discovering Jay. G. Sigmund

Posted on March 17, 2018 by Steve Semken

… At the crossroads of two cultural icons exists Jay G. Sigmund, born in Waubeek, Iowa. As the Regionalist movement was in full swing guess who had an enormous influence on well-known artist… Read more… […]

Coming Clean

Posted on March 17, 2018 by Steve Semken

$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 […]

53 Lines

Posted on February 26, 2018 by Steve Semken

Voices After Evelyn is being released in concert with this limited-edition artist’s book entitled 53 Lines. Iowa artist and poet Julie Russell-Steuart (Caveworks Press) was commissioned by Maintenance Ends to take a 53-line excerpt from Harsch’s novel and explore the mystery of Evelyn’s disappearance through a unique “tetra tetra flexagon” structure, also known as “Jabob’s Ladder.” […]

Miriam’s Well

Posted on February 2, 2018 by Steve Semken

Andersens of Eden

Posted on June 30, 2017 by Steve Semken

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 […]

The Art of Decay

Posted on January 24, 2017 by Steve Semken

9781888160161, 100 pgs Order Direct | Read the Des Moines Register feature story | Coming this April, 2017: In this collection of essays, poems, and drawings from his own personal journals, Bruce Hopkins reflects on the truth and beauty in nature, concentrating on how important it is to listen to the voices of nature, and […]

Women and the Land

Posted on January 5, 2017 by Steve Semken

96 pgs | Hard Cover | Full Color | $24.99 | 11″ x 11″ | Isbn 9781888160963 | Barbara Hall & Kathryn Gamble Read the Des Moines Sunday Register article, 2017 Check out this cool TV piece on the book from Des Moines, Iowa Women and the Land takes a look at more than twenty-five […]

Crude

Posted on January 5, 2017 by Steve Semken

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 […]

Coming Alive

Posted on January 5, 2017 by Steve Semken

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, […]

The Swagger of Dorothy Gale & Other Filthy Ways to Strut

Posted on September 23, 2015 by Steve Semken

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 […]

SCHOOLHOUSE

Posted on February 16, 2015 by Steve Semken

The Big Drugstore

Posted on December 15, 2014 by Steve Semken

Order your copy direct and have it signed by the author. Crime Fiction mystery set in the Quad Cities along the Mississippi River. There is no crime that Private Detective Mike Scofield can’t crack. Acclaimed Midwest author Patrick Irelan’s first novel is set along the Mississippi River in the Quad Cities of Iowa and Illinois. […]