Memoir and Identity
An Interview with Loren Schmidtberger, author of The Beginner’s Cow: Memories of a Volga German from Kansas by Hayden Wilsey Writing a title for a text that looks at the intimate moments of your life...
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An interview with Carol V. Davis, author of Because I Cannot Leave This Body by Kristen Womble Why did you choose the title for Because I Cannot Leave This Body? Titles for poetry are challenging...
View ArticleA Conversation with Lori Horvitz, author of The Girls of Usually
The Open Canon Book Club’s December selection An interview by Aderinsola Adesida and Jenna Faulkner We were excited to learn that Lori’s book The Girls of Usually was the December selection for The...
View ArticleDean Rader provides humorous insight to his work
Three T. S. Eliot Prize poets will visit Truman March 29 to promote poetry and highlight their prize-winning books published by Truman State University Press, now celebrating 25 years of publishing....
View ArticleMona Lisa Saloy discusses poetry as a journey
Three T. S. Eliot Prize poets will visit Truman March 29 to promote poetry and highlight their prize-winning books published by Truman State University Press, now celebrating 25 years of publishing....
View ArticleThe Dibbuk Box: Jason Haxton on Writing His Story
by Jeff Denight Jason Haxton writes in his journal daily, and has for the last twenty-two years, yet he has never considered himself a writer. Even now, after the publication of his book, The Dibbuk...
View ArticleShow Yourself Missouri
By Jason Offutt, author of Haunted Missouri & What Lurks Beyond A few years ago, I got in my car and drove to Canada simply because I’d never been there. It was an amazing experience, and I...
View ArticleThe Force of Words: An Interview with Laura Bylenok, Winner of the T. S....
By Allison Bearly and Hannah Brockhaus Warp by Laura Bylenok is the winner of the 2015 T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry, awarded annually by the Truman State University Press to the best unpublished...
View ArticleThe War In Words: An Interview with Michael Miller, author of The Different War
by Alex Reiser and Abbey Northcutt Michael Miller, author of The Different War, a finalist in the 2014 T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry, compares the lives of soldiers from Afghanistan and Iraq with...
View ArticleNever Too Late
An interview with Sharon Harrigan, author of Playing with Dynamite By Miriam Young The title of your book refers literally to the story you tell about how your father lost his hand, but I get the...
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