Author Archives: Kevin Flatowicz-Farmer

Michelle Brooks‘ recent collection from The Backwaters Press, Make Yourself Small, is reviewed in the current edition of Rattle by Grace Curtis. She writes:  The collection evoked a sense of toughness often associated with West Texas and Detroit. Yet the poems drew me in despite their consistently dark subject matter. What kept me reading was not [...]

Matthew Brennan’s poem, “The Sublime,” from his collection The House With The Mansard Roof, is featured on the website IndianaHumanities.org. The poem won the Merton Prize for the Poetry of the Sacred.

Foreword Reviews has released the list of finalists for the Book of the Year award, and Backwaters’ own Brent Spencer is nominated for his memoir Rattlesnake Daddy. Rattlesnake Daddy, a book by Professor Brent Spencer (Department of English), has been named a finalist for the 2011 Book of the Year Award in the category of [...]

Denise Low’s latest collection of critical essays, Natural Theologies: Essays About Literature of the New Middle West, received a positive write-up from Brian Burnes in the Kansas City Star. He interviewed Low and about her collection, and her connection with Midwestern writers: “It’s as if, if we are not reading the Times Literary Supplement, we are [...]