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A literary press at Wayne State College in Wayne, Nebraska

WSC Press

A literary press at Wayne State College in Wayne, Nebraska

WSC Press

A literary press at Wayne State College in Wayne, Nebraska

WSC Press

Poetry

Human Nature

Human Nature

by Julie S. Paschold

Praise for Human Nature: Embodying a rainbow of emotions, the poetry of Paschold grounds the reader to the world around them and those that inhabit it, big and small. —Joel Sartore Photography...

Quinta necesidad (Fifth Necessity)

Quinta necesidad (Fifth Necessity)

by Iliana Rosabal-Pérez & Translated by Liz Rose

Praise for Quinta necesidad: Quinta necesidad reflects Rosabal Pérez’s view of poetry as a journey of self-discovery, in which the protagonist grows in self-awareness against the backdrop of the...

Father and Son

Father and Son

by William Trowbridge

Praise for Father and Son: "This is not only a fine book, it is a worthy one." —Charles Harper Webb, author of Sidebend World William Trowbridge takes on a mythic task here, that of a son carrying...

Near Misses

Near Misses

by Michael Catherwood

Praise for Near Misses: Can falling water nourish sorrow? Do burnt mattresses and boneyards possess mythologies of their own? What are the conditions whereby actual fish might bubble up from the depths...

A Crazy Little Thing

A Crazy Little Thing

by Lucy Adkins

This book is a series of poems about love in its many manifestations, including sections on a love relationship during the time of the VietNam War, love and "trouble," and love in later life. Praise for...

We Eat the Earth

We Eat the Earth

by Greg Kosmicki

Praise for We Eat the Earth: In We Eat the Earth, Greg Kosmicki writes with a clarity and immediacy rare in American poetry. I never feel lost in a Greg Kosmicki poem, even as each one is a small journey....

Evening All of a Sudden

Evening All of a Sudden

by David Wyatt

The poems in David Wyatt’s Evening All of a Sudden tremble with a solemn, introspective rhythm, complementing the collection’s echo of spirituality without dogma, where a crow or an ant is as much...

Feeding the Fire

Feeding the Fire

by Twyla Hansen

In Feeding the Fire, Twyla M. Hansen writes of her on-going journey of love, hope, and her concern for the natural world, grapples with grief and honors her late husband’s memory in his brief fight with...

Chorus of the Underground Sea

Chorus of the Underground Sea

by Kassandra Montag

Praise for Chorus of the Underground Sea: "In lush verse and precise imagery, the many voices that make up Chorus of the Underground Sea reveal and reflect the gravity of what it means to be a woman,...

Hardly Alone

Hardly Alone

by Red Shuttleworth

Red Shuttleworth is a three-time recipient of Western Writers of America’s Spur Award for Poetry. Woe to the Land Shadowing (Blue Horse Press) won the 2016 Western Heritage Wrangler Award for Best Poetry...

First Pony Out

First Pony Out

by Samuel Stenger Renken

Praise for First Pony Out: First Pony Out takes us on a journey across the dry landscape of the past and present-day West, from poems paying homage to the Natives who once inhabited this land, their conflicts...

Of Bone, of Ash, of Ordinary Saints: A Nevada Gospel

Of Bone, of Ash, of Ordinary Saints: A Nevada Gospel

by Gailmarie Pahmeier

Praise for Of Bone, of Ash, of Ordinary Saints: "This book should be mandatory reading for every visitor to and resident of Nevada. A brilliant celebration of Nevada’s state park system, a travelogue...

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