<p>Earthworms &amp; Stars was the first book in Spartan Press&#39;s&nbsp;POP Poetry Series which put out one book of poetry EVERY month for 36 consecutive months by Kansas City locals and regional friends. &nbsp;Jeanette Powers was co-conspirator for the project as well as first release. &nbsp;Her feral poetry is sweet as the dried possum blood on your dogs face. She currently is the Acquisitions Editor for EMP.</p><p>Beautiful &amp; Abominable was the 4th book in the POP&nbsp;Poetry Series and Ezhno&#39;s first taste of book-selling. &nbsp;As taste&#39;s often do this quickly led to addiction and EMP was created as a chapbook press stop-gap quasi-suboxone fidget-spinner for tales of <em>duende. &nbsp;</em>Ezhno&#39;s poetry is both poignant and patently offensive with a soft wood rotting and fermenting underbelly of love and loyalty. &nbsp;As Editor In Chief of EMP Ezhno&#39;s dream is to live in a van that settles down by the side of a different river every night.</p><p>Jason Ryberg&#39;s Spartan Press births more books than an Irish Catholic family and this is in no small part due to Jason&#39;s legendary virility. &nbsp;The love poems contained are but a few of thousands written between fanning him with palm fronds.&nbsp;</p>