Inspiration at Vicksburg: Poetry Beyond the Forlorn Hope In the December 31, 2018, edition of the Missouri Unionist you’ll find an article remembering the brave actions of Civil War […]
Jesse James: The Legend Who Would Not Die
For anyone who grew up in the Ozarks, the James brothers are not just historical figures, they are local legends. Jesse James and his brother Frank were members of Quantrill’s […]
94 Literary Magazines Accepting Reprints (Updated for 2023)
I took the 2016 list entitled “185 Literary Magazines Accepting Reprints” from publishedtodeath.blogspot.com and manually checked each entry. Those which no longer functioned or explicitly stated they only want unpublished work […]
65 Places to Publish Formal Poetry (Updated for 2023)
I took Trish Hopkinson‘s old list entitled “53 Places to Publish Formal Poetry” which was reposted on Annie Finch‘s website–both sites have excellent poetry resources–and manually checked each entry. Those […]
For Writers of Formal Poetry, Rejection is Part of the Journey
In 2014, it was six years since self-publishing my first poetry collection, Leaving Home: Discoveries and Reflections of a Once-Sheltered Life, with Aardvark Global Publishing, LLC. Many of the poems […]
Ernest Smelcer (1903-1991), Pulaski County, Missouri
Ernest Smelcer was born in or near Crocker, Pulaski County, Missouri, on December 15, 1903, to James Benjamin Smelcer and Sarah Elizabeth (McMillian) Smelcer. He was the youngest of nine children. […]
Unlikely a Lincoln: The Improbable Progeny of Honest Abe
October 14, 1968, was a day like any other in Williamsburg, Virginia. It was a rough year nationally for the Civil Rights Movement as the country still reeled from the […]
Speechelo: An Honest Review (no really…)
Speechelo, a Text-to-Speech Software that….sounds like text-to-speech software. Those voiceover actors who could not help but bite their nails with nervousness upon learning of Speechelo by Stoica should breathe a […]
A Long Journey into Night: Abraham Lincoln’s Corpse at Rest
Although Abraham Lincoln was assassinated in 1865, his final burial didn’t occur until 1901, and only after his coffin had been moved and opened several times. April of 1865 was […]
Poems Previously Published in March
Memoirs of a Witness Tree Among “Nine Cool Things on a Tuesday” I was delighted to see my latest poetry collection, Memoirs of a Witness Tree, among Jama Rattigan’s “nine […]