Oklahomeland
by Jeanetta Calhoun Mish
Oklahomeland welcomes you to the real Oklahoma, the Oklahoma not of a musical but of sweat-stained people, of a raw land of raw emotions. Mish is foremost a storyteller whose compelling narratives and imagery entice us into caring as much as she does. You can take a walk with a little girl and her Grandpa or drive down a rural highway, always connected with the land. Even more scholarly subjects become conversations Mish holds with passion and fire, whether about Woody Guthrie or lynchings in her hometown.
Read a review of Oklahomeland by Robert Murray Davis for Southwestern American Literature, Spring 2016.
Order from any bookstore, local or online. This title is also available from Fleur Fine Books of Galveston, Texas.
About the Author
For her collection of poetry, Work is Love Made Visible, Jeanetta Calhoun Mish won an Oklahoma Book Award, a Wrangler Award, and a WILLA Award from Women Writing the West. Her writing appears in numerous journals and anthologies, and she contributes much to Southwestern and American letters with her editorial work. She is founding editor of the active and successful Mongrel Empire Press. She serves as Director of The Red Earth Creative Writing MFA program at Oklahoma City University where she is also a faculty mentor in writing pedagogy and the craft of poetry.