"BJ Omanson’s Monongahela Books publishes an interesting mix of poetry, military history, and regional studies. It has published collections by contemporary poets such as Jared Carter and Marc Harshman. It has also published a volume of poems (introduced by Dana Gioia ) and a critical study of American World War I poet John Allan Wyeth. There are some intriguing forthcoming studies of literary regionalism in the Midwest, including Robert Bray’s The Regionalist Tradition in Midwestern Poetry and Early Reviews of Edgar Lee Masters’ Spoon River Anthology. Omanson is a gifted poet in his own right. I especially admire his collection Stark County Poems."
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