Ain't Nobody That Can Sing Like Me: New Oklahoma Writing

by Jeanetta Calhoun Mish (Editor)

Way over yonder in the minor key There ain't nobody that can sing like me --Woody Guthrie Originally published as issue #35 of Sugar Mule: A Literary Magazine (www.sugarmule.com), this groundbreaking anthology includes 188 selections of poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, essays, and visual art by 78 writers and 2 visual artists who currently live in Oklahoma. A powerful gathering of voices, singing hymns, telling stories, making truth from a powerful place. --Rilla Askew, author of Fire in Beulah and Harpsong

Genres: Poetry

420 pages, Paperback

First published November 11, 2010

About the author

Jeanetta Calhoun Mish is a poet, writer and literary scholar; Mish’s most recent book is Oklahomeland, a collection of essays published by Lamar University Press. What I Learned at the War (2015), a poetry collection, was published in 2016 by West End Press. Her 2009 poetry collection, Work Is Love Made Visible (West End Press) won an Oklahoma Book Award, a Wrangler Award, and the WILLA Award from Women Writing the West.

Mish has published poetry in This Land, Naugatuck River Review, Concho River Review, LABOR: Studies in Working Class History of the Americas, San Pedro River Review, Blast Furnace, and ProtestPoems.org, among others. Essays and short fiction have appeared recently in Sugar Mule, Crosstimbers, Red Dirt Chronicles, and Cybersoleil. Anthology publications include poems in Returning the Gift and The Colour of Resistance as well as the introductory essay for Ain't Nobody That Can Sing Like Me: New Oklahoma Writing.

Mish serves as contributing editor for Oklahoma Today and for Sugar Mule: A Literary Journal. She is also editor of Mongrel Empire Press which was recognized as 2012 Publisher of the Year by the Woodcraft Circle of Native Writers and Storytellers. Dr. Mish is the Director of The Red Earth Creative Writing MFA program at Oklahoma City University where she also serves as a faculty mentor in writing pedagogy and the craft of poetry.

Reviews

[Brian · Rating 4 out of 5]

Jeanetta Mish successfully compiled a mish-mash of a smashing stash of poetic knish that is likely to make a splish splash.

[Laura Heller · Rating 5 out of 5]

Well, I do love this collection for many reasons, the first and foremost one being so many great writers and writing in one place, and the second being I have five of my own poems included within the anthology. I still pick it up and read a story or poem I haven't read yet. A great primer to introduce oneself to the current writings of Oklahomans today.

[Sasha · Rating 3 out of 5]

Some very good and many interesting poems and short fiction pieces which I incorporated into my AP Literature class. I enjoyed teaching works by people I have met, about places I have seen and felt.