{"product_id":"and-when-there-was-no-jason-ryberg-9798899750014","title":"And When There Was No Crawdad We Ate Sand","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJason Ryberg\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of twenty-two collections \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eof poetry, six screenplays, a few short stories, a box full \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eof folders, notebooks and scraps of paper that could \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eone day be (loosely) construed as a novel, and countless\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003elove letters (never sent). He is currently an artist-in-\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eresidence at both The Prospero Institute of Disquieted\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eP\/o\/e\/t\/i\/c\/s and the Osage Arts Community, and is an\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eeditor and designer at Spartan Books. His work has\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eappeared in \u003cem\u003eAs it Ought to Be, Up the Staircase \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eQuarterly, Thimble Literary Magazine, I-70 Review, \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMain Street Rag, The Arkansas Review\u003c\/em\u003e and various \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eother journals and anthologies. He lives somewhere in \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe Ozarks, near the Gasconade River, with a rooster \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003enamed Little Red and a Billy-goat named Giuseppe.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbraham Smith \u003c\/strong\u003ewas raised around Ladysmith, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Wisconsin, and lives along the Wasatch Front, where he is associate professor of English and co-director of Creative Writing at Weber State University. His most recent poetry collection is \u003cem\u003eOne Warm Morning \u003c\/em\u003e(Stubborn Mule Press, 2025). Away from his desk, Smith improvises poems inside songs with the Snarlin' Yarns: thesnarlinyarnsut.bandcamp.com. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJohn Dorsey\u003c\/strong\u003e is the former Poet Laureate of Belle, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMO. He is the author of several collections of poetry, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eincluding \u003cem\u003eWhich Way to the River: Selected Poems: \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e2016-2020 \u003c\/em\u003e(OAC Books, 2020), \u003cem\u003eSundown at the \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eRedneck Carnival, \u003c\/em\u003e (Spartan Press, 2022), \u003cem\u003ePocatello \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWildflower, \u003c\/em\u003e (Crisis Chronicles Press, 2023) and \u003cem\u003eDead \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePhotographs, \u003c\/em\u003e (Stubborn Mule Press, 2024). He may be \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ereached at archerevans@yahoo.com.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOriginally from the flatlands of central Illinois, \u003cstrong\u003eJustin \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHamm\u003c\/strong\u003e now lives near Twain territory in Missouri. He \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eis the author of five full-length collections of poetry, \u003cem\u003eO \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDeath, Drinking Guinness With the Dead: Poems 2007-2021, \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Inheritance, American Ephemeral, \u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eLessons in Ruin;\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003esix poetry chapbooks; and a book of photographs \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eentitled \u003cem\u003eMidwestern\u003c\/em\u003e. He is also the creator of Poet \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBaseball Cards and the founding editor of the \u003cem\u003emuseum \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eof americana. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jason Ryberg,Abraham Smith,John Dorsey\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798899750014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oac Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/20\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 124\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.29lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.29d","brand":"Jason Ryberg","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48742941262079,"sku":"9798899750014","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/and-when-there-was-no-jason-ryberg-9798899750014","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}