Spartan Press

05/24/2025

5 brand spakin' new releases from Spartan Press. [have you checked out the Spartan website redux? it's pretty danged spiffy if we do say so ourselves].

Vojta’s poetry lives between garden and wild river, between honesty and tenderness, between litany and lyricism, wrapping the reader in the awareness that our orderly universe still allows breathing space for surprise and wonder. —Amy Wright Vollmar, Follow

05/24/2025

5 brand spakin' new releases from Spartan Press. [have you checked out the Spartan website redux? it's pretty danged spiffy if we do say so ourselves.

Vojta’s poetry lives between garden and wild river, between honesty and tenderness, between litany and lyricism, wrapping the reader in the awareness that our orderly universe still allows breathing space for surprise and wonder. —Amy Wright Vollmar, Follow

03/17/2025

Now available from Spartan Press: "Heart: Collected Poems 1975-2024" by Michael Poage!

When you open any book of Michael Poage's poems from the last ten years, you encounter geological layers of history-layers of suffering and bloodshed, of war but also of insight and grace. And you encounter the voice of the poet--but is it his own persona or of someone he has known in Croatia,...

03/13/2025

The latest from Spartan Press: "Every Angel in Heaven is a Hopscotch Champion, Selected Poems 2016-2020" by Victor Clevenger!

"Victor Clevenger is a writer whose work I genuinely get excited to read. He has a unique voice that he seamlessly reinvents time and time again, that always remains Clevenger. Every Angel in Heaven is a Hopscotch Champion is collection of over 300 selected poems from...

03/09/2025

Coming soon from Spartan Press: "Moonshine Ethics for a New Humanity" by Alexej Savreux!

03/07/2025

Coming soon from Spartan Press: "Backstories" by Maryfrances Wagner!

02/16/2025

"Catherine Strayhall's debut is one of generations of joys and losses, of memories firmly rooted by place. Strayhall has a dexterous range of forms that she uses to explore the legacy of World Wars, the changing landscape and climate, and to count all the ways we are alive. She is unafraid to face the world's cruelties but always returns to art as a balm in the face of tragedies. With the same kind of courage the title Dress Me Like a Prizefighter implies, the poems "crush lightning and love on my lips" and beautifully balance the darkness with the tenderest connections, the poems about the light we have, reminding us to have courage as the sun goes down."

-Traci Brimhall, Poet Laureate of Kansas, 2023-2027

Dress Me Like a Prizefighter

02/15/2025

"This Swirling Largesse is a poetic memoir, an historic, dual journey of a woman's life whose roots trace back to a great-great Choctaw grandmother and the Trail of Tears. Whether we're at the Oklahoma farm reuniting with a father returning from war, birthing a calf, hoeing a black snake to death for eating chicken eggs, riding the trail of transplantation from Alabama to new Indian Territory, or coping with the silence of a country in lockdown during Covid, Lewis always puts us right there with imagery and detail as precise and right on as it gets. With skillful crafting, Lewis turns what could have been an historic account into a poetic triumph. Read This Swirling Largesse and enjoy this tour de force."

-Maryfrances Wagner - 6th Missouri Poet Laureate, Solving for X

This Swirling Largesse

02/12/2025

From Spartan Press: "Strange Tales from Cherokee Street," an anthology of St. Louis poets featuring:
Daniel W. Wright, Jim McGowin, Denmark Laine, Jessie Eikmann,
S. Elizabeth Cook and Mack Thorn.

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...

02/11/2025

Featuring Rick Christiansen, Victoria Garton, Michael Donovan, J Khan, Poet T.L. Sanders, Tina Hacker, José Faus, Jane Ellen Ibur, Linda Rodriguez and Patricia Cleary Miller.

During my time as Missouri's 6th Poet Laureate, I have had two major goals. The first has been to put poetry into the hands and ears of Missourians who don't usually read poetry or go to poetry readings. My second has been to promote or highlight Missouri poets and publishers. Thanks to...

02/10/2025

The latest from Spartan Press: "Paradise Notes" by Patricia Traxler.

Patricia Traxler is an award-winning poet, essayist, and fiction writer. A two-time Bunting Poetry Fellow at Radcliffe, she also served as Hugo Poet at the University of Montana, Thurber Poet at Ohio State, and as visiting writer at many other universities around the U.S. Her novel...

02/10/2025

Patricia Traxler is an award-winning poet, essayist, and fiction writer. A two-time Bunting Poetry Fellow at Radcliffe, she also served as Hugo Poet at the University of Montana, Thurber Poet at Ohio State, and as visiting writer at many other universities around the U.S. Her novel...