Green Acre

Death haunts us all, but Cody Shrum shows us how Santa died, how the first dog he loved died, and he, too, took life while still a child. In Green Acre, Shrum writes with a Midwestern authenticity about coming of age in Southeast Kansas. These poems tell stories of "back home"--catfishing in "the dean of fish and big black water, the guilt of killing pests plaguing "the grounds of that green acre," growing "too old/for the caped crusader."
Shrum writes with grounded clarity about family, home, nostalgia, and identity to reveal the beauty and awe that exist in the everyday moments all around us.
This book is Shrum's first book of poetry.

Cody Shrum is a two-time Pushcart Prize-nominated Kansas writer and editor. He received his BA and MA degrees in creative writing from Pittsburg State University, and his MFA in creative writing and media arts from The University of Missouri-Kansas City. His writing has appeared in such publications as HAD, Major 7th Magazine, BULL, Cleaver Magazine, The Midwest Quarterly, Rust + Moth, and Harbor Review, as well as the anthology, Kansas Time + Place: An Anthology of Heartland Poetry. He is also a fiction editor for Identity Theory. Cody's writing explores the rural Midwest and, more specifically, small-town Kansas where he grew up. As the cover of this chapbook attests, he has always been a huge nerd and Batman fan. Cody lives in Kansas City with his wife, Kylee, and their two ferocious guard dogs, Zeus and Phoebe.