Are You Sure Kerouac Done it This Way?

Jason Ryberg is the author of twelve books of poetry, six screenplays, a few short stories, several angry letters to various magazine and newspaper editors, and a box full of folders, notebooks and scraps of paper that could one day be (loosely) construed as a novel. He is currently an artist-in-residence at both The Prospero Institute of Disquieted P/o/e/t/i/c/s and the Osage Arts Community. He lives part-time in Kansas City, with a rooster named Little Red and a billy goat named Giuseppe, and part-time somewhere in the Ozarks, near the Gasconade River, where there are also many strange and wonderful woodland critters.

Jason Ryberg is currently listening to an old transistor radioplay nothing but sad songs in a room that rents for $20 / hour,
in a motel (owned by the sheriff's brother-in-law, they say) out
by the highway on just another hot and nasty Saturday night,
just outside of just another Damned If I Know, USA. Every
now and then a truck or car or bus speeds by. Every now and
then a star falls. Most of the time there's never any trouble.




John Dorsey lived for several years in Toledo, Ohio. He is the author of several collections of poetry, including Teaching the Dead to Sing: The Outlaw's Prayer (Rose of Sharon Press, 2006), Sodomy is a City in New Jersey (American Mettle Books, 2010), Tombstone Factory, (Epic Rites Press, 2013), Appalachian Frankenstein (GTK Press, 2015) Being the Fire (Tangerine Press, 2016) and Shoot the Messenger (Red Flag Poetry, 2017),Your Daughter's Country (Blue Horse Press, 2019), and Which Way to the River: Selected Poems 2016-2020 (OAC Books, 2020). His work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net, and the Stanley Hanks Memorial Poetry Prize. He was the winner of the 2019 Terri Award given out at the Poetry Rendezvous. He may be reached at archerevans@yahoo.com.






Victor Clevenger spends his days in a Madhouse and his nights
writing. Selected pieces of his work have appeared in print
magazines and journals around the world; it has also been
nominated for the Best of the Net Anthology and the Pushcart Prize.
He is the author of several collections of poetry including Sandpaper Lovin'
(Crisis Chronicles Press, 2017), A Finger in the Hornets' Nest (Red Flag Poetry, 2018),
Corned Beef Hash By Candlelight (Luchador Press, 2019), A Wildflower In Blood
(Roaring Junior Press, 2020), and Mourning Eyes (Between Shadows Press, 2021).
Together with American poet John Dorsey, they run River Dog.
He can be reached at: crownofcrows@yahoo.com