Announcing April Pameticky’s newest release from Spartan Press
with concern for how words land in the body
June 2026
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What are people saying about April’s Work?
April Pameticky is a poet who knows how to make words sing and rattle, evoke and enlarge our internal capacity to “see” our world anew and be moved.
Gretchen Eick,
PhD, author of six books of fiction
and two prize-winning nonfiction books
Kansas Reflector on Gretchen Eick.
Call me wrong, but no one from our region has written so well about the body and the minutiae of this world since Whitman or Niedecker.
Kevin Rabas,
author of Lisa’s Flying Electric Piano,
and former Poet Laureate of Kansas
Kevin Rabas
For me, April Pameticky’s poetry has always been accessible in the way that the minutiae of life becomes universal. I find this to be a work of maturity, over and above the clearly defined persona of the poet I read prior. This is a collection the reader may view in a different light themselves when they re-read it later. The river continues to flow and we along with it.
H.B. Berlow, Writer and Artist aka Tikiman
Author of the Ark City Confidential Chronicles and The Wichita Chronicles:
Co-host of Tikiman and The Viking Podcast
About the Book:
In 2023, April emerged from COVID Poetry Paralysis with a need to heal her poetry heart. She was also sick of dwelling in the dark [that’s a lot of sentimental nonsense to say that it took April longer than most to come out of COVID with creativity intact].
As the Writer in Residence that summer, April spent 10-15 hours per week just parked in the permanent collection of the Wichita Art Museum. She interacted with artist work and patrons, wrote thousands of words that sometimes landed in poems, and listened to music outside of any sense of order or history. She also engaged in many, many discussions of what it means to be “creative.”
What began as a series of ekphrastic poems became a kind of fake history of imaginary self, a constant conversation with music and artists and artwork to pool together a memoir that is part poetry collection, part rock album liner notes.
The book is meant to be digitally interactive, acknowledging that we dwell in a strange-in-between-space of a physical world (analog) and an internet of answers and distractions at our fingertips. This work doesn’t mean to pull you from that, but rather live there with you.
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