Bøger af Roy Beckemeyer

Kansas Poet Laureate (209-2013) emerita Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg says of 365 Days: A Poetry Anthology: "these poems invite us to glimpse the shifting, extraordinary world in the seemingly still moments of the ordinary." The closed Facebook group, 365 Poems in 365 Days, was formed in 2015. Members committed to writing a poem a day and sharing at least the title of the poem with the rest of the group. The effort was a resounding success; the supportive and collegial atmosphere engendered a flurry of poetry writing activity. At the year's end, members were invited to submit poems for consideration for publication. Twenty-one poets did so, and this resulting book contains 100 poems selected by editors Roy Beckemeyer, James Benger, Dan Pohl, and Diane Wahto. Denise Low, Kansas Poet Laureate (2007-2009) emerita, has called these "authentic, agile poems" written by "skilled, committed poets." John Dorsey, author of Appalachian Frankenstein, sees this book as "sharing its voice for all of the right reasons, offering humanity, letting people know that they're not alone, even on their darkest days." Poets included in this book: Barry "Washboard" Barnes, Roy Beckemeyer, James Benger, Carl Bettis, Matthew Bogart, Lindsey Martin-Bowen, Paul Goldman, Beth Gulley, GJ Gulley, Anne Haehl, Will Hagman, Sandy Hazlett, Melissa Fite Johnson, Alan S. Kleiman (aka Ace Mulvahil), Ronda Miller, Heather Mydosh, Eve Ott, Dan Pohl, Tyler Sheldon, Diane Wahto, and Sarah Worrel.

Roy Beckemeyer of Wichita has BS, MS, and Ph.D. degrees in engineering from St. Louis University, Wichita State University, and the University of Kansas, respectively. He retired from a 30-year career at Boeing in research and development, airplane design, and executive management. He has read and written poetry since high school; his post-retirement poetry has been widely published in literary journals and anthologies. He has four previous poetry collections in print: his most recent is Mouth Brimming Over (2019, Blue Cedar Press); Stage Whispers (2018, Meadowlark Books) won the 2019 Nelson Poetry Book Award; Amanuensis Angel (2018, Spartan Press) assembled ekphrastic poems inspired by depictions of angels in works of modern art; Music I Once Could Dance To (2014, Coal City Press) was a 2015 Kansas Notable Book. He is co-editor of several poetry anthologies, including Kansas Time+Place: An Anthology of Heartland Poetry (2017, Little Balkans Press, with Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg). He won the 2016 Kansas Voices award, and his poetry has been nominated for Pushcart and Best of the Net awards; his prose poem, "Words for Snow," was selected for Best Small Fictions 2019. He and his wife, Pat, celebrated their 60th-anniversary in 2021. In his spare time, he has edited two scientific journals and conducted and published research on the Paleozoic insect fossils of Kansas, Oklahoma, and Alabama. Visit his author's page at: https://royjbeckemeyer.com/.

Roy J. Beckemeyer is a retired engineer and scientific journal editor who lives in Wichita, Kansas. He currently studies the Paleozoic insect fossils of Alabama, Kansas, and Oklahoma, and writes poetry. 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 won the Beecher's Magazine Poetry Contest in 2014, and the Kansas Voices Poetry Award in 2016. He recently co-edited (with Caryn Mirriam- Goldberg) Kansas Time+Place: An Anthology of Heart- land Poetry (Little Balkans Press, Pittsburg, KS, 2017).