Middle-America's most engaging authors since 1998.
Middle-America's most engaging authors since 1998.
James Benger has written a bunch of stuff. Some of it has even been published in print and on the interwebs. So far there are two ebooks, three chapbooks, six splits, and two full-lengths. He is the resident slacker on the Board of Directors of the Writers Place, and is the most truant member of the Riverfront Readings Committee. He is also the admin of an online poetry workshop called 365 Poems in 365 Days, which has produced four anthologies and counting. He lives in Kansas City with his wife and children.
By James Benger , Sarah Worrel , Lindsey Martin-Bowen
Published: 2024
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By James Benger , Jason Baldinger
Published: 2024
The latest dual poetry joint by Baldinger and Benger, is a bold and sympathetic meditation on the wrack, rumble, and backroad precariousness found in the protoplasm of American experience. A read I heartily recommend.
~ John Burroughs, 2022-2023 U.S. Beat Poet Laureate
Lyric poems and ballads, paying homage to the gritty, black-and-white life of stuckness that plays out in single wides, 3rd shifts and temp work. A tender witness of lower-case Saturdays and the slow passing of time till someone notices “the drop ceiling they installed in the sky…”
~ Karen Schubert, author of The Compost Reader
Imagine yourself in the backseat of a beater, a sodium-lit highway, an overnight road trip with two friends whose stories are fluent, profound, humane, deft and tender. At the end, I returned to the first page and began again.
~ Jennifer Browne, American Crow