Three poets will read from Wild Muse: Ozarks Nature Poetry, a new collection from Counterpost Press, a publisher in West Plains, Missouri. Join us for readings by Wendy Taylor Carlisle, Paulette Guerin, and Gerry Sloan and have your copy signed.

About the Authors:

Gerry Sloan is a retired music professor living in Fayetteville, Arkansas. His poetry collections are Paper Lanterns (2011) and Crossings: A Memoir in Verse (2017) plus six chapbooks including Wild Muse (Cornerpost Press, 2023). Recent work appears in Nebo, Slant, Cantos, Xavier Review, Arkansas Review, Blue Unicorn, Cold Mountain Review, Mid/South Anthology, Rat's Ass Review, Cave Region Review (featured poet), and Elder Mountain (featured poet).

Paulette Guerin lives in Arkansas and teaches writing, literature, and film. Her poetry has appeared in Best New Poets, epiphany, Contemporary Verse 2, Twyckenham Notes, and others. Her debut collection, Wading Through Lethe, explores memory, loss, and metamorphosis in the landscapes of an Ozark Mountain childhood and travel abroad. She also has a chapbook, Polishing Silver, as well as a chapbook-sized selection in the anthology Wild Muse. Her website is pauletteguerin.com.

Wendy Taylor Carlisle is the author of four books and five chap books and is the 2020 winner of the Phillip H. McMath Poetry Prize. A chapbook-length selection may be found in Wild Muse (Cornerpost Press, 2022), and a new edition of her book, Reading Berryman to the Dog, comes out in 2023 from Belle Point Press. Find more of her work at www.wendytaylorcarlisle.com.