Monongahela Books

Stark County Poems , by BJ Omanson. (Monongahela Books, 2019). Map, illustrations. 59 poems. 225 pages. $15.

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Stark County Poems Consisting of over fifty poems, from short lyrics in a variety of forms to lengthy blank verse and free verse narratives, "Stark County Poems" portrays the history of a small rural county in central Illinois, along the upper Spoon River valley. ~~ Chronologically arranged, and incorporating letters,...

WALT WHITMAN: Poet of Democracy by Cleveland Rodgers. (Monongahela Books, 2025). Illustrated. $8.50.

The latest 'small booklet' from Monongahela Books is an obscure, little-known essay-- originally published in 1920-- on Whitman as a poet of democracy by one of his earlier biographers, Cleveland Rodgers, who also served as editor-in-chief of the Brooklyn Eagle, a post held for a time by Whitman himself.

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Walt Whitman, Poet of Democracy Reprint of a little-known article originally published in 1923 by Cleveland Rodgers, Associate Editor of the "Brookland Eagle" and author of "Walt Whitman's Life and Work." Pointed and, at times, surprisingly prescient.