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In Until Air Itself Is Tinted, Cullen Whisenhunt approaches his poems with a photographer's keen eye, drawing into sharp focus everyday details that often go overlooked. In this collection, Whisenhunt creates a rich poetic texture, interwoven with cranes and herons, leafy sidewalks and cypress teeth. Indeed, these are poems we can sink our teeth into, the rich imagery set against a vivid backdrop of birdsong and Oklahoma soul.

Atlas Sighs: Selected and New Poems, by Alan Berecka, brings together the best of the poet's previously published volumes, and includes a section of his most recent work. As Ken Hada notes in his introduction, "Alan Berecka's Atlas Sighs: Selected and New Poems offers readers a bountiful collection of narrative poems in which the poet, indeed, finds the 'right, true thing' for each poem."

A collection of short stories by Oklahoma author Mark Walling."In the Choctaw language, Oklahoma means 'courageous nation' or 'brave people,' and in these Oklahoma stories by Mark Walling, readers encounter different varieties of courage from characters who feel grounded in this region-and rooted to it. I Can Hear Everything From Here is an important collection from a writer who burns with hopefulness and heart."-Aaron Gwyn, author of All God's Children and Wynne's War"Mark Walling writes about his characters with great empathy, but his tone is never cloying. He puts us in the minds of these people, tells us what happened to them, and gets out of the way. Consequently, I felt very close to all of them, and I admired this book enormously."-Steve Yarbrough

Come Before Winter is an invitation written with a keen and pressing awareness of time passing, measured, and marked by the turning of seasons. Like the pastoral letter from Paul to Timothy, from which the title is taken, these poems arrive as exhortations to the reader to meditate, as Emerson says, on "the flux of all things."

Roy Beckemeyer of Wichita has BS, MS, and Ph.D. degrees in engineering from St. Louis University, Wichita State University, and the University of Kansas, respectively. He retired from a 30-year career at Boeing in research and development, airplane design, and executive management. He has read and written poetry since high school; his post-retirement poetry has been widely published in literary journals and anthologies. He has four previous poetry collections in print: his most recent is Mouth Brimming Over (2019, Blue Cedar Press); Stage Whispers (2018, Meadowlark Books) won the 2019 Nelson Poetry Book Award; Amanuensis Angel (2018, Spartan Press) assembled ekphrastic poems inspired by depictions of angels in works of modern art; Music I Once Could Dance To (2014, Coal City Press) was a 2015 Kansas Notable Book. He is co-editor of several poetry anthologies, including Kansas Time+Place: An Anthology of Heartland Poetry (2017, Little Balkans Press, with Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg). He won the 2016 Kansas Voices award, and his poetry has been nominated for Pushcart and Best of the Net awards; his prose poem, "Words for Snow," was selected for Best Small Fictions 2019. He and his wife, Pat, celebrated their 60th-anniversary in 2021. In his spare time, he has edited two scientific journals and conducted and published research on the Paleozoic insect fossils of Kansas, Oklahoma, and Alabama. Visit his author's page at: https://royjbeckemeyer.com/.

In his debut collection, Hank Jones welcomes us into his narrative world of memory, rites of passage that have made him, define him. Hank''s honest voice, his gentle, self-effacing style presents an ironic, assertive tribute to the best of masculinity.