The poem "Closing Inventory," about the death of an aging farmer living alone along the Spoon River in the mid-1930s, and which first appeared in the online journal The Milk House, has been reprinted in Small Farmer's Journal. The poem is from the collection Stark County Poems (Monongahela Books, 2019), by BJ Omanson.
Mr. Omanson informs us that he is always pleased when his work appears in a traditional agrarian magazine as it means he is reaching a wider general audience beyond the small specialized audience of academic literary journals.
He also appreciates the unapologetically old-school layout of farming magazines with their generous use of space and illustrations and mingling of literary pieces with practical articles on agricultural subjects.
Omanson's work has appeared several times in Small Farmer's Journal and has also appeared in Farming Magazine, an Amish publication, which has published such poets as Wendell Berry and Ted Kooser.
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