For Dave Malone, it’s not the major events of our lives that make the difference, but the small things.
—Glynn Young
Poetry
Malone writes the heartland as he knows it—the complications and simplicities, the victory and the elegy—then dares us to try and forget what he’s shown.”
“Tornado Drill offers a landscape of everyday people working and living, of sunrises and sunsets, of old lovers, of wrens who ‘drown the sky in flight.'”
From school days to elegies, these poems highlight life’s (extra) ordinary moments.
Read Glynn Young’s review.
“Malone’s poems form an intimate geometry of hill, home, flesh, and bone, as essential as they are elemental.”
—Mike Luster, Professor, Arkansas State
Inspired by the primary colors of Mark Rothko’s vibrant No. 15 painting, these love poems give life to the canvas of the rural Ozarks.
Read the MSU-West Plains article.
Paying homage to the changing seasons, the poems relate the changing nature of romantic love and friendship.
Read Tobi Cogswell’s review.
Inspired by poetry from women of the ninth century court in Imperial Japan,
Under the Sycamore, is a collection of short poems that speaks to passion, desire, and longing in a modern-day setting.
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These sonnets evoke the rural Ozarks and its shifting seasons. Thriving gardens and honeysuckle bloom are met with the harshness of spring floods. Yet these sonnets, that take liberty with the form, also offer liberty and solace.
“Could it be that sex and love actually belong together? How nice to still embrace that rather literary idea, portrayed so vividly in Dave Malone’s Poems to Love and the Body.”
—Diane Wakoski
Other Books
Jessie and Chance have a history. In this two-act play set in Kansas City, undeterred by their murky past, Chance believes Jessie can love and be loved, but can she overcome her troubled background, a meth-dealing father, and her own insecurities?
Ottawa University’s remarkable story begins with the Ottawa Tribe,
Baptist missionaries, rogues,
townspeople, and even Abraham Lincoln. It is a 150-year story of perseverance by faculty, students, staff, and friends who—buoyed by
the OU Spirit—helped to create and sustain a distinctive liberal arts
college that grew into a
comprehensive university despite tumultuous change.
Jan 20, 2009 is an on-the-ground account of Barack Obama’s inauguration as the 44th President of the United States. Written by a mix of
58 citizen journalists and bestselling authors, and contributors include American Book Award and 2009 NAACP Image Award
winner Tananarive Due, Washington Wizards’ NBA player/poet Etan Thomas, author Victoria Christopher
Murray, and actress Malinda Williams.