365 Days Vol. 2 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781986723107)

Editors: Roy J. Beckemeyer is a retired engineer and scientific journal editor who lives in Wichita, Kansas. His poems have appeared in half a dozen anthologies as well as in many print and on-line literary journals. His first book of poetry, Music I Once Could Dance To (Coal City Press, Lawrence, KS, 2014) was selected as a 2015 Kansas Notable Book. He recently co-edited (with Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg) Kansas Time+Place: An Anthology of Heartland Poetry (Little Balkans Press, Pittsburg, KS, 2017). His chapbook of ekphrastic poems, Amanuensis Angel, published in 2018 by Spartan Press of Kansas City, MO, is comprised of poems that first appeared on the 365 Days Facebook page. James Benger is a father, husband and writer. His work has been featured in several publications. He is the author of two fiction ebooks: Flight 776 (2012) and Jack of Diamonds (2013), and two chapbooks of poetry: As I Watch You Fade (EMP 2016) and You've Heard It All Before (GigaPoem 2017). He is a member of the River-front Readings Committee in Kansas City where he lives in with his wife and son. Dan Pohl is a full professor of English composition at Hutchinson Community College in Hutchinson, Kansas. His first book of poetry, illustrated by his daughter Jessie, Autochthonous: Found in Place published by Woodley Memorial Press in 2013; it won the Kansas Authors Club 2014 Nelson Poetry Book Award. His second book, also illustrated by Jessie, is Anarchy and Pancakes (Spartan Press, 2018). He lives in Moundridge, Kansas. A sampling of his poems is online at kansaspoets.com. He has self-published two chap-books: Spring House and Unpaved Roads. Diane Wahto started writing poetry in 1983 when she entered the Wichita State University MFA creative writing program. Her poem, "Somebody Is Always Watching," won the American Academy of Poets award in 1985 and was published in the AID Review. Her work has been published in various journals and magazines, and she has won awards from Kansas Voices and Kansas Authors Club, among others. Diane was co-editor of the first edition of 365 Days: A Poetry Anthology. Her poem, "A Blank Sheet of Paper," was selected for the Jan. 22, 2018, edition of Heartland: Poetry of Love, Resistance, & Solidarity. The poem, "Empty Corners," was published in the spring issue of Same, a literary journal. Diane lives in Wichita, Kansas, with her husband Patrick Roche and their dog Annie.