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The Gasconade Review is a literary and arts publication based out of the Osage Arts Community (http://osageac.org/), located on the Gasconade River, just outside of Belle, Missouri. It appears twice annually, focusing primarily, but not exclusively, on writers and artists from the region and state, but occasionally also features folks what ain't from around here. All submissions must be hand delivered between the months of April and October and the hours of 3pm to 6pm. A decent bourbon is appreciated. Proper river attire required. Don't worry, the dogs won't bite.

Sean Arnold is a poet, writer and visual artist residing in South Saint Louis, Missouri. He graduated from Webster University in 2015 with a degree in Creative Writing where he was poetry editor of the Green Fuse literary magazine and studied under David Clewell. Arnold is currently pursuing a Master's in Education from Webster University, and his day job is as a community support provider at a mental health agency. Previous published works include a four-part chap book series called Soliloquy from a Freight Yard, which was based around freight yard romanticisms and the glorious confusion of youth. Previous publications include Big Bridge Magazine out of Berkley, The Green Fuse, and Crossing the Divide (an anthology created by St. Louis' poet laureate Michael Castro to promote unity through poetry). Past music credits include providing spoken word for the bands Barely Free and Holy!Holy!Holy!. For the past three years he has run a reading series out of Foam Coffee and Beer on Cherokee St. entitled Sunday Summer Spoken Word series. Arnold is a lover of dusty trails, back-alleys, freight trains, running, good health and bourbon.

Matthew "Chigger" Haines is a language artist living in the American Midwest. He hosts the collaborative feature Free Chigger Matthews Presents, teaches poetry workshops for all ages, and is an artist- in-residence at Osage Arts Community in Belle, MO. He is the chief editor for The Artifact, Planet Earth's First Global Poetry Newspaper and his work appears at home and abroad.

Joseph Sulier was born and raised in the simple poverty of Fenton Missouri and currently resides in the city of St. Louis. Sulier has been published in several literary journals including 52nd City, The U. City Review, The Curator Magazine and RINE and has had several collections of poetry published including The Ruins of a Rube (Permanent Sleep Press), A House Full of Broken Instruments (Permanent Sleep Press), The Dogs Are Winning (Calico Grounds Press), Only Death is Certain (Get Born Press) and Never Well Again (Get Born Press).

Waco was born in Galveston, TX on December 12, 1974and was raised in the Marines. He met his wife in 1996and has not looked back. She and his daughters havereinvigorated his pen and have been the backbone of hiswriting. ¿ey are the anchor for his wandering mind.Waco uses poetry to get a clear image of what he sees.When he is not writing, Waco likes to swim, bike, run, andride around the city looking for pancakes. ¿oughts onlife? In his own words:youngest of four, only boy, daddy's

"An old cliche¿ talks about how a reader does not need to leave her/his chair to travel the world. In his collection of poetry Scheherazade Plays the Chestnut Tree Cafe, Boyd Bauman's poems convert the chair into a TARDIS to whisk us away into his examinations of world travels. Alongside these, Bauman shows us his rural Kansas upbringing, too, and the times of unknowing in the midst of organized religion and ranch-talk. He lends a lens to the racism of that childhood world: though we didn't have a clue / who a queer was / and what would a black man / want with a town like ours... rough these complications examined in this work, we get to see the worlds we know, the worlds that need revealed, and the worlds we haven't visited but understand what we do is to survive, just as Bauman shares with us through looking at Iceland's poet Egil: Poets are forged / simply by bearing witness / to the nature of this land, / this land of temper / and skäld (other poets)."-Dennis Etzel, Jr., author of is Removed Utopia

Daniel W. Wright is a mid-western son who loves and loathes the red brick town that surrounds him. A poet of the no collar work force, Wright's work has appeared in the Gasconade Review as well as underground zines Bad Jacket, Acid Kat, and Crappy Hour as well as online reviews like The Rye Whiskey Review. His previous works include The Death of the Ladies Man, Small Town Blues: Early Lyrics and Poems, Portrait, Murder City Special, and Working Bohemian's Blues. Wright currently lives in St. Louis where you can usually find him in a bar or a bookstore.

The Cosmic Lost & Found If there's a cosmic lost and foundand you know where to find itthen you know where I'll beheaped on top of a pileof discarded whateverslost glovesand scarves and hatsan inexplicable bathrobea number of solo socksyour copy of the Tao te Chingby Ursula le Guinthe necklace you stolefrom your motherthat reminded herof your fatherthe keys to the lockon your gloveboxbut not whateveris trapped in there. I'm sifting through boththings utterly forgotten and thingsthat plague you with the naggingquestion of where you left them. I sit on an infinity of bobby pinsand rubber bandsthe frame containingall but the senior year photosof your son, even the onewhere he wore the aubergine beretthere's your ring in the shapeof a leaping horse Nicki lostthere's the leather belt you tooledin 8th grade shop class with the lettersR O Y, for your grandfathercentered between filigreeson my lap is the white catthat ran away one springwho had white eyes and a fat bellylying with his head on my kneeis your golden retrieverwhich your step-father soldfor killing the grass along the fence-linewhere he ran and ran. My bed is made of all the junk mailnever read and never missedand notebooks lost with onlya few front pages filled withthe insecure marks of hesitant youthsomewhere around hereis your first Danzig cassettethat Bob Dylan posterand the tape with your father's voicewhich you never did listen toall the way throughbecause it made you cry so hard. There I am adriftamidst these oddmentsthe keeper of the left behindthe recorder of what's missing. There's me whistlinga little tuneyou made upwhen you were nineabout the cloudsand the horses. There's mewaiting to be found. -Jeanette Powers

Karl Dean, from the Central Great Plains along the Smoky Hill River, perceived a vision perusing through an old cellar at the impressionable age of seven, mani-festing this insightful phantasm into poetry. Karl Dean, also a professional abstract artist, has been published in one anthology Tears of Fire (Watermark Press, 1993) and in the Lawrence Journal World twice.

Daniel W. Wright is an award-nominated poet and fiction writer. He most recently wrote the foreword for Sacred Decay: The Art of Lauren Marx (Dark Horse, 2021). He is the author of eight collections of poetry, including Love Letters from the Underground (Spartan Press, 2021), Rodeo of the Soul (Spartan Press, 2019), and Murder City Special (Bad Jacket, 2017). His work has appeared in print journals such as The Literary Parrot, BUK100, 365 Days, and Gasconade Review, as well as online journals such as Book of Matches. He currently resides in St. Louis, MO, where you can usually find him in a bar or a bookstore.Jim McGowin has a background in media communications and visual art. He prefers to create cool stuff, but keeps a day job. His poems have been published in Chance Operations, The UCity Review, Rusty Truck and The Gasconade Review. He is the author of several chapbooks of poetry and the collection Murmuration, published in 2018 by Spartan Press. He lives in St. Louis, Missouri with his family and two cats.Denmark Laine is a St. Louis poet, novelist and music critic whose work has been featured on Fox 2 KTVI, Subprimal Poetry, STL TV Live, the St. Louis Poetry Slam, Eleven Magazine, Bad Jacket and Book of Matches to name a few. He has a BFA in nothing from Southern Illinois University Edwardsville with a minor in miming and is the author of Exile On Cherokee Street, The Gods of Autumn, Thorazine Ice Cream Parlor and The Absinthe Fountain.Jessie Eikmann lives in south St. Louis, where she stocks shelves at a supermarket and occasionally screws around with writing. Though she mostly writes as a hobby these days, she spent six years obsessively devoted to poetry, culminating in her MFA from the University of Missouri-St. Louis in 2019. Her work has appeared in Sou'wester and Unbroken Magazine. Bad Jacket Press published a chapbook of her poems, The Kiss of Complicity, which she describes as "letters to all the people who disappointed me in my life." Jessie may or may not publish any more work soon, as she lacks professional ambition and does not care what content is "appropriate" for highbrow magazines. Post-MFA, she has spent most of her time cooking fancy vegetarian food, haunting her local gym, volunteering with her labor union and the Communist party, and seeking out various sexual dalliances on OKCupid.S. Elizabeth Cook is an award-winning author and poet of four published poetry collections, the most recent being Yellow Light. A true romantic, S. Elizabeth has spent nearly a decade writing about and capturing the raw existence of humans, nature and love. She believes there is beauty in heartache and a deflating pain in love, and that one must fall to let it hurt.Mack Thorn is poet from St. Louis, Missouri. Growing up he has lived in almost every corner, nook, and cranny of his home town. Worked a broad array of conventional and unconventional jobs like drug rehabilitation and dry wall hanging. He also spent 6 years in the navy reserve. Published works in Badjacket zine and the Whiskey Rye Review.

Denmark Laine is a St. Louis poet and novelist whose work has been featured on Fox 2 KTVI, Subprimal Poetry, STL TV Live, the St. Louis Poetry Slam, Eleven Magazine and Bad Jacket. He is a graduate of Southern Illinois University Edwardsville with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Theatre. He is the author of The Gods of Autumn, Exile On Cherokee Street and Smalltown Kings.

Glenn North is currently serving as a consultant for Education and Community Programs at the Black Archives of Mid America while also pursuing an MFA in Creative Writing at the University of Missouri - Kansas City. He is a Cave Canem fellow, a Callaloo creative writing fellow and a recipient of the Charlotte Street Generative Performing Artist Award and the Crystal Field Poetry Award. Glenn provided the poetic narration for the award winning film short, May This Be Love and did a guest appearance on the popular ABC family drama, Lincoln Heights. He has shared the stage with many legendary African American poets including Nikki Giovanni, Sonia Sanchez and Amiri Baraka. His work has appeared in Kansas City Voices, One Shot Deal, The Sixth Surface, Caper Literary Journal, Platte Valley Review, Kansas City Voices, Cave Canem Anthology XII, The African American Review, and American Studies Journal. He also collaborated with legendary jazz musician on the critically acclaimed recording project, Check Cashing Day.

"For those who may think poetry is obtuse and boring, In Pearl Broth: Poems New & Selected will shake that notion free. Rikki Santer's poems are chock-full of vibrant language that evokes responses in both the busy mind and the quiet heart of the reader: piffling questions multiply like maggots . . . the mall tilts on its axis . . .we like handcuffing matters down . . . secret bag of caramels in a lingerie drawer . . . little swords of wheat . . . fuzzy-hearted commas . . . a marimba of alchemy . . . canape¿s of flummery . . . my museum of desperate clues. These poems stopped me in my tracks more than a few times. So moved by "A Swift and Fatal Plunge", I spent an evening reading about the tragic event that inspired Santer's stunning narrative. The notes I kept while reading In Pearl Broth will surely serve to inspire my own poem-making."-Susan F. Glassmeyer, Invisible Fish; 2018 Ohio Poet of the Year

Jason Ryberg is the author of fourteen books of poetry,six screenplays, a few short stories, several angry lettersto various magazine and newspaper editors, and a boxfull of folders, notebooks and scraps of paper that couldone day be (loosely) construed as a novel. He is currentlyan artist-in-residence at both The Prospero Institute ofDisquieted P/o/e/t/i/c/s and the Osage Arts Community.He lives part-time in Kansas City with a rooster namedLittle Red and a billygoat named Giuseppe and part-time somewhere in the Ozarks, near the GasconadeRiver, where there are also many strange and wonderfulwoodland critters.

Robert L. Dean, Jr.'s work has appeared in Flint Hills Review, I-70 Review, The Ekphrastic Review, Illya's Honey, Red River Review, River City Poetry, Heartland! Poetry of Love, Resistance & Solidarity, and the Wichita Broadside Project. He read at the 13th Annual Scissortail Creative Writing Festival in April 2018 at East Central University in Ada, Oklahoma, and the Chikaskia Literary Festival 2018 at Northern Oklahoma College, Tonkawa campus. His haibun placed first at Poetry Rendezvous 2017. He was a finalist in the 2014 Dallas Poets Community chapbook contest and a quarter- finalist in the 2018 Nimrod Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry contest. He is event coordinator for Epistrophy: An Afternoon of Poetry and Improvised Music held annually in Wichita, Kansas. He has been a professional musician and worked at The Dallas Morning News. He is a member of the Kansas Authors Club and lives in a one-hundred-year-old stone building in Augusta, Kansas, along with a universe of several hundred books, CDs, LPs, two electric basses and a couple dozen hats.

Mike James makes his home outside Nashville, Tennessee. He has published in numerous magazines throughout the country in such places as Plainsongs, Laurel Poetry Review, Birmingham Poetry Review, and Chiron Review. His poetry collections include: Parades (Alien Buddha), Jumping Drawbridges in Technicolor (Blue Horse), First-Hand Accounts from Made-Up Places (Stubborn Mule), Crows in the Jukebox (Bottom Dog), My Favorite Houseguest (FutureCycle), and Peddler's Blues (Main Street Rag.) He served as an associate editor of The Kentucky Review and currently serves as an associate editor of Unbroken.