…Lindsey Martin-Bowen’s poems are alive with wit, evocative imagery, insight, and sometimes downright playfulness.
—WILLIAM TROWBRIDGE, Missouri Poet Laureate, 2012-2016; Author, Call Me Fool (2022)
—WILLIAM TROWBRIDGE, Missouri Poet Laureate, 2012-2016; Author, Call Me Fool (2022)
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Actual money, i.e. cash, has become more of an existential concept
in today's world. early praise for CASHING CHECKS with Jim Morrison
CASHING CHECKS with Jim Morrison offers a surreal cascade of archetypes from, among others, ancient Greece, the Bible, American Literature, and pop culture. Moving through it is the speaker’s companion spirit and guru, Jim Morrison—Lizard King, Narcissus/Adonis. Set in a world where, in Albert Einstein’s words, "reality is merely an illusion," Lindsey Martin-Bowen’s poems are alive with wit, evocative imagery, insight, and sometimes downright playfulness. Through heeding Morrison’s counsel to "go weirder," she’s made this collection reader-friendly.
—WILLIAM TROWBRIDGE, Missouri Poet Laureate, 2012-2016
Author, Call Me Fool (2022) In Lindsey Martin-Bowen’s CASHING CHECKS with Jim Morrison, I relish every word, compelled by the poet’s stories and singing voice. Fantasy and fact merge in these invocations of the seminal American rocker Morrison and of his spirit. Join me as a reader in exploring this exciting testament to the power of language to resurrect history and wonder.
—DENISE LOW, Kansas Poet Laureate, 2007–2009
Poetry Unbound Featured Poet also by Lindsey Martin-Bowen
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- The BOOK of FRENZIES (Pierian Springs Press 2022) - Where Water Meets the Rock (39 West Press 2017) - CROSSING KANSAS with Jim Morrison (Paladin Contemporaries 2016) - Inside Virgil’s Garage (Chatter House Press 2013) - Standing on the Edge of the World (Woodley Press/Washburn Univ. 2008) - Second Touch (Chapbook 1990) fiction - Rapture Redux: A Comedy (Paladin Contemporaries 2014) - Hamburger Haven (Paladin Contemporaries 2009) - Cicada Grove (Paladin Contemporaries 1992) |
About the AuthorLindsey Martin-Bowen’s fourth poetry collection, Where Water Meets the Rock was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, her third, CROSSING KANSAS with Jim Morrison (in chapbook form) was a semi-finalist in the QuillsEdge Press 2015–2016 Chapbook Contest. In 2017, it won the Kansas Writers Association award, “Looks Like a Million.” In 2016, Writer’s Digest gave her “Vegetable Linguistics” an Honorable Mention in its 85th Annual Contest (Non-rhyming Poetry Category). Her Inside Virgil’s Garage (Chatter House Press 2013) was a runner-up in the 2015 Nelson Poetry Book Award, and a poem from that collection was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. McClatchy Newspapers named her Standing on the Edge of the World (Woodley Press/Washburn University) one of the Ten Top Poetry Books of 2008. It was nominated for a Pen Award.
Her poems have run in New Letters, I-70 Review, Thorny Locust, Tittynope Zine, Coal City Review, Amethyst Arsenic, Silver Birch Press, Flint Hills Review, Bare Root Review, The Same, Phantom Drift, Porter Gulch Review, Rockhurst Review, 14 anthologies, and other literary magazines. She taught at the University of Missouri-Kansas City 18 years and often concurrently at MCC-Longview 25 years, and now she teaches writing, Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, and American Court Systems and Practices (online) for Blue Mountain Community College in Pendleton, Oregon. She holds an MA from the University of Missouri and a Juris Doctor degree from the UMKC Law School. In a previous life, she was a full-time newspaper reporter for The Louisville Times (Louisville, Colorado) and for The SUN Newspapers (Johnson County, Kansas), an associate editor for Modern Jeweler Magazine and the editor for The National Paralegal Reporter. |
photo by Nelli Sudbrock
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