Mammoth is proud to present a video / text /image experience of this fine poet, Dr. Damaris B. Hill, professor at the University of Kentucky in Lexington. Follow the link on her Mammoth web page, which also features her chapbook Visible Textures. Click here:
Shut Up In My Bones: A Digital Poem / A Remix
$10.00 ISBN 978-1-939301-68-0, Staple-bound paper, 5.5” X 8.5” 24 pages. 2017. Order at www.mammothpublications.net ; mammothpubs@gmail.com; 1916 Stratford Rd. Lawrence KS 66044 $10@ plus shipping + Kansas tax. Discounts for multiple copies.These short stories collect the contemporary and mythic experiences of a young woman seeking identity in the American Southwest. Diane Willie, enrolled Dine (Navajo), moves among cultures, geographies, and time frames to renew stories of the Navajo Long Walk, La Llorona, and contemporary women who survive with courage and dignity.
Diane Willie is an instructor at the Native American Community Academy in Albuquerque, New Mexico. She graduated from Haskell Indian Nations University with an Associates degree and the University of Kansas with a Bachelor’s degree in Education. She has pursued graduate studies in Creative Writing and Education. She is from the Navajo tribe of New Mexico. Her favorite authors are Leslie Marmon Silko and Louise Erdrich.
“Diane Willie’s original voice adds depth to 21st century stories of the American Southwest. Her mythical tales draw upon Navajo, Pueblo, Spanish, and Anglo histories to create her own mélange. Always, the Native viewpoint structures Willie’s narratives. Read these as rituals of healing. The final message is one of hope, esperanza.” Denise Low, former Kansas Poet Laureate
\ Vi-zə-bəl \ \ Teks-chərs \ (Visible Textures) is a chapbook project of poems that incorporate digital 
humanities methods in creative expressions. The poems are inspired by GPS technologies. The series contrasts details and physical spaces associated with an 1854 Indian Reservation map of Kansas and a 2013 highway map of Kansas. Some poems detail territories allocated to Indigenous American Nations.
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Staple-bound paper, 5.5” X 8.5” Poetry 24 pages $10.00 ISBN 978-1-939301-73-4 Cover art and interior illustration by Thomas Pecore Weso April 1, 2015. Free shipping with online orders. 20% discount for orders of 5 or more. Check orders may be sent to 1916 Stratford Rd., Lawrence, KS 66044.
DaMaris B. Hill has a keen interest in the work of Toni Morrison and theories regarding “rememory” as a philosophy and aesthetic practice. She is inspired by the anxieties of contemporary existence that are further complicated by fears that some linear narratives of history fail to be inclusive, stating “I belong to a generation of people who do not fear death but are afraid that we may be forgotten.” Currently, Dr. DaMaris B. Hill serves the University of Kentucky as an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing and African American and Africana Studies.
Publication date Aug. 1, 2014. Greg Field will read from his new book July 24, Raven Bookstore, Lawrence, KS, 7 pm. Advance copies of Greg Field’s new book of poetry Black Heart are available by June 20 from Mammoth. Order here. Reviewers, please contact us by email mammothpubs@gmail.com $15.00 plus $2.50 shipping: Mammoth Publications 1916 Stratford Rd. Lawrence, KS 66044. 10% discount online–mention this deal. (Vendors contact Mammoth for terms.) 
Native American Poetry 88 pages. $15.00. ISBN 978-1-939301-85-7 LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER: 2014938953 Perfect bound paper, 6” X 9” Introduction by Denise Low
ains. Introduction by Scott Bontz. Design by James Dissette. 44 pages. $8.00. ISBN 978-1-939301-87-1 Supported by a grant from The Land Institute, Wes Jackson, presidentRobert Day describes the genesis of these eight pieces: “All of the essays in this section I wrote for—or because of—my association with the Prairie Writers Circle, a group of authors brought together by Wes Jackson of The Land Institute. They were republished by newspapers all over the country,” and many of them appeared on national and international websites. Day presents opinion-editorial pieces that read like well wrought fiction. The title essay is about one of the most famous writers of the grasslands, William Stafford (1914-1993). This National Book Award-winning poet advocated for environmental and social awareness throughout his career. The William Stafford Centennial Conference at Washburn University (31 March 2014) was the occasion for the launch of this book. All of Day’s essays are models of craftsmanship, as they effortlessly present issues of water and fuel shortages, depopulation, and the human dimension of farming the Great Plains. Scott Bontz describes the mission of the Land Institute in the book’s introduction as “at once co
smopolitan and rural.” This describes Day’s superb writing.
Robert Day is a premiere writer of our day. His The Last Cattle Drive was a Book-of-the Month Club selection. His short fiction has won many awards, including Seaton Prizes, a Pen Faulkner / NEA Prize, and Best American Short Story and Pushcart citations. BkMk Press recently published his short fiction collection Where We Are Now (2012). His nonfiction colle
ction is The Committee to Save the World, with individual pieces previously published in Washington Post Magazine, Smithsonian, Forbes, American Scholar, and World Literature Today. The Canadian online journal Numéro Cinq is serializing his novel Let Us Imagine Last Love, which they will publish as an e-book (2014); Mammoth Publications will publish the print edition (2015). Day resides part of each year in the far western corner of the state and in Maryland. He taught at Washington College in Chestertown, Maryland, in addition to residencies at Montaigne College of the University of Bordeaux, The Iowa Writers Workshop, and The University of Kansas.
Mammoth is publishing books by Caleb Puckett, Stephen Meats (Looking for the Pale Eagle) Greg Field, Robert Day, and Xanath Caraza in 2014. Caleb Puckett’s FATE LINES /DESIRE LINES publication date is March 15, 2014
978-1-939301-86-4 92 pages 5 ½ by 8 ½ perfect bound
Fate Lines/ Desire Lines, by Caleb Puckett, is a superb collection from a poet with an original voice and a daring approach to language. He speaks to all kinds of lines that define our lives, especially storylines about what our lives are and are not. Puckett inhabits the landscape of possibilities, designing his own poetic forms, re-inventing traditional forms, and giving new life to prose poems and free verse. Puckett prompts us to think through those lines we carry and carve across the earth. Fate Lines/ Desire Lines balances between choice and compulsion, nature and persuasion.
Originally from Albuquerque, New Mexico, Caleb Puckett lives with his wife, sons, and dogs in Ottawa, Kansas, where he works as an academic librarian. He has two book-length collections from Otoliths, Tales from the Hinterland and Market Street Exit. In addition to writing, Puckett serves as editor-in-chief for a library science journal, associate poetry editor for Nimrod International Journal, and editor for the online literary journal Futures Trading (futurestradinglit.weebly.com).
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