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Middle-America's most engaging authors since 1998.
Dr. Steven M. Gerson, Professor Emeritus, Johnson County Community College, Overland Park, KS, was named 2003-2004 Kansas Professor of the Year, chosen by the Carnegie Foundation. He is the co-author, along with his wife Sharon Gerson, of 13 college-level textbooks and the author of six poetry chapbooks: Once Planed Straight: Poetry of the Prairies; Viral: Love and Losses in the Time of Insanity; The 13th Floor: Step into Anxiety; And the Land Dreams Darkly (Spartan Press-KC); There is a Season (Online Journal of Arts and Letters); and What Is Isn’t.
He has published over 400 poems in many journals and is honored to have been named a finalist three times for the North Dakota State University Press Poetry of the Plains and Prairies award. Steve is most proud of his 55 year marriage to Sharon, for whom all his love poems are written, his wonderful family of Stacy, Stefani, Rob, Bobby, and for the joy of spending time with his three grandchildren: Sophia, Samantha, and Jacob. These people are the poetry of Steve’s life.
By Steve Gerson
Americana writ large! Deftly delivered, elegantly crafted, cementing Gerson at the forefront of contemporary American poets. Radiantly encapsulating the travails of immigrants amid xenophobia, women confronting misogyny, veterans grappling with PTSD, and individuals facing anxiety, infirmity, and mortality. Luminous language from this Poet Laureate of the Everyday, of the American 99.99%, elevates one’s spirits, quiets tension, and provides hope regarding humanity’s fate.
—Dr. Robert C. Cottrell, The Heyday of Willie, Duke, and Mickey: New York City
Baseball’s Golden Age Amid Integration
Captures the myriad facets of human identity: love and heartbreak, the dichotomy between inclusion and exclusion, the hope of youth and experience of age, the bloom of health and the withering of the infirm.
—Stacy Harken, JD, Information Architect/Technical Writer, Garmin Industries
Modern and sophisticated without sacrificing the human. A collection for our times.
—Collin Thomas