johnmarkeberhart.com

Other sites, publications

My poems have appeared in some of the country's leading literary journals, including New Letters, New Millennium Writings, Pleiades, The Mid-America Poetry Review, Coal City Review, the I-70 Review, the Midwest Quarterly and many more. Other periodicals, lesser-known but worthy, include The Same and yellow mustard.

I encourage you to support these and other publications. To learn more about New Letters, visit www.newletters.org. For information about the Mid-America Press or Mid-America Poetry Review, go to www.midamericapress.org.

Other great verse resources:

Poetry Daily at www.poems.com. Be sure and post an e-mail telling Don Selby how much you like the site.

And don't miss Poets & Poetry in Rags: http://poetryandpoetsinrags.blogspot.com/

Ron Silliman's blog: http://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/

The Poet Laureate Project

This is under construction: I'm building a set of links to the nation's state poet laureates and the current U.S. poet laureate. Also, I'm hoping to publish poems from as many of them as possible on the Parachute blog. Here's a start on the links:

U.S. Poet Laureate Charles Simic: http://www.loc.gov/poetry/laureate_current.html

Kansas Poet Laureate Denise Low's blog: http://deniselow.blogspot.com/

Missouri Poet Laureate Walter Bargen's Web site:

http://www.walterbargen.com/

My day gig

I'm the book review editor at The Kansas City Star, one of the larger daily newspapers in the United States. Located in Kansas City, Missouri (not Kansas), The Star is a respected news source with a stellar (sorry, couldn't resist) history. Ernest Hemingway began his writing career here, and former staff members also include novelist Whitney Terrell (The King of Kings County) and Rick Atkinson, historian, journalist and Pulitzer-prize winning author of An Army at Dawn. As for me, I've won numerous awards during my career, covering everything from cops and courts to the environment, city and state and national government, and of course arts and literature. To read my journalism, go to kansascity.com and click on Entertainment, then Books.

I'm also a member of the National Book Critics Circle, the organization representing freelance book reviewers and newspaper and magazine and online editors in the literary world. For more information on the NBCC and to access information on the group's Critical Mass blog, go to www.bookcritics.org