{"product_id":"cemetery-plums","title":"Cemetery Plums","description":"\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGerry Sloan\u003c\/strong\u003e is a retired music professor living in Fayetteville, Arkansas. He has been writing poetry since high school, where he was lucky enough to have John Taylor, an inspiring English teacher. An essay won the Preternatural Readers Contest in 1987 from \u003ci\u003eThe Missouri Review.\u003c\/i\u003e In 1990, he received the WORDS Award in Poetry from the Arkansas Literary Society in Little Rock. In 2018, he won First Prize in Poetry from the Gaza Freedom Flotilla Coalition for “Poem for Palestine.” His poetry collections are \u003ci\u003ePaper\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eLanterns\u003c\/i\u003e (Half Acre Press, 2011), \u003ci\u003eCrossings: A Memoir in Verse\u003c\/i\u003e (Rollston Press, 2017), and a selection in the “chapthology” \u003ci\u003eWild Muse: Ozarks Nature Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e (Cornerpost Press, 2022). His poems appear in \u003ci\u003eChristian Science Monitor,\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eKansas Quarterly,\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Nebraska Review,\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eNorth Dakota Quarterly,\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eMidwest Quarterly,\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003ePlains Poetry Journal,\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eArkansas Review,\u003c\/i\u003e as well as the \u003ci\u003eAnthology of Magazine Verse \u0026amp; Yearbook of American Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e (1986–88).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"center\" style=\"margin: 0in; text-align: center; background: white;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003e Website:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"center\" style=\"margin: 0in; text-align: center; background: white;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.gerrysloanpoetry.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003ewww.gerrysloanpoetry.com\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePaperback: 118 pages\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Kelsay Books (July 24, 2026)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kelsay Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53829637636280,"sku":null,"price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0013\/0800\/0329\/files\/gsloan_front.jpg?v=1785358719","url":"https:\/\/kelsaybooks.com\/products\/cemetery-plums","provider":"Kelsay Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}