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And When There Was No Crawdad We Ate Sand
Paperback
Poetry AnthologiesGeneral Poetry
Publisher: Oac Press
Published: Jun 20 2025
Pages: 124
Weight: 0.29
Height: 0.29 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Jason Ryberg is the author of twenty-two collections
of poetry, six screenplays, a few short stories, a box full
of folders, notebooks and scraps of paper that could
one day be (loosely) construed as a novel, and countless
love letters (never sent). He is currently an artist-in-
residence at both The Prospero Institute of Disquieted
P/o/e/t/i/c/s and the Osage Arts Community, and is an
editor and designer at Spartan Books. His work has
appeared in As it Ought to Be, Up the Staircase
Quarterly, Thimble Literary Magazine, I-70 Review,
Main Street Rag, The Arkansas Review and various
other journals and anthologies. He lives somewhere in
the Ozarks, near the Gasconade River, with a rooster
named Little Red and a Billy-goat named Giuseppe.
Abraham Smith was raised around Ladysmith,
Wisconsin, and lives along the Wasatch Front, where he is associate professor of English and co-director of Creative Writing at Weber State University. His most recent poetry collection is One Warm Morning (Stubborn Mule Press, 2025). Away from his desk, Smith improvises poems inside songs with the Snarlin' Yarns: thesnarlinyarnsut.bandcamp.com.
John Dorsey is the former Poet Laureate of Belle,
MO. He is the author of several collections of poetry,
including Which Way to the River: Selected Poems:
2016-2020 (OAC Books, 2020), Sundown at the
Redneck Carnival, (Spartan Press, 2022), Pocatello
Wildflower, (Crisis Chronicles Press, 2023) and Dead
Photographs, (Stubborn Mule Press, 2024). He may be
reached at archerevans@yahoo.com.
Originally from the flatlands of central Illinois, Justin
Hamm now lives near Twain territory in Missouri. He
is the author of five full-length collections of poetry, O
Death, Drinking Guinness With the Dead: Poems 2007-2021,
The Inheritance, American Ephemeral, and Lessons in Ruin;
six poetry chapbooks; and a book of photographs
entitled Midwestern. He is also the creator of Poet
Baseball Cards and the founding editor of the museum
of americana.
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