Balancing on a Bootheel: New Voices in Poetry from Southeast Missouri Book

Clay Matthews
Where a Poem Meets Its Maker
Ante Up
Flowers for Jimmy
Sightings of Natty
Something Like a Farmer
When You Take Me Down

Shawn McLain
Father's Wood Shop
Prenuptials
Sunday Morning Fishing
Water Elegy
Self Portrait at Twenty-One

Ben Marxer
The Square Root of Negative One Equals I
Progress
Futility
Commatose
Freedom, Fireworks, and Five-Fifty an Hour

Nicole Trokey
Something Kinda Kinky
Asphyxiation Barbie
The Busty Feminist's Lament
Ruined Halloween
Sam's Town Casino; Tunica, MS
Chunky

Doc Bertram
I Think My Mind Just Got Fucked, and No One Bought It Dinner First
Epilogue
Forest, Trees, Etc.
Summation
Thus Spake Millard Fillmore
Where Have You Gone, Jennifer D?

Nicole Stanfield
Cycle
Fifty-five, Give or Take
Maximum Capacity
Preconceived Nations
Queer Junkie

Michael G. Howell
Spring Lament
Human Nature
Thoughts of a Baby Inside
Redemption
Less than Human
We Stand Alone

Jarret Green
I Stole this Title
Desert
Digital Boy Is More than a Gamer
Dust and Bees
Father Is to Son as Wrench Is to Bolt
Lungs Fill

Jon Thrower
What Have I Come To? Value
PhotograPhelle Dream: Sofia Coppola on the Set in Downtown Cape Girardeau
Publishing House of Cards
Sacrificing Alex
Worlds Pulled Apart
If I Could Take You to Another Place