HOT BUTTON PRESS 2025 Poetry Series
An O:JA&L Writer’s Portfolio
Mixed Forms: Haibun & Short Works
Steve Gerson
HAVE NOT
Click on the title to explore or download the free PDF chapbook.
Copyright © 2025 by HOT BUTTON PRESS: Contemporary Issues
An imprint of OPEN: Journal of Arts & Letters (O:JA&L)
All rights reserved on behalf of OJAL Art Incorporated, O:JA&L/BHP/HBPcc/HBPca and Steve Gerson.
Publishing since 2017 as OPEN: Journal of Arts & Letters (O:JA&L) and its imprints
Buttonhook Press, HOT BUTTON PRESS Contemporary Controversies, and HIGH BUTTON PRESS Contemporary Art
OJAL Art Incorporated serves artists and writers worldwide.
Formatted in Create Space.
Set in Garamond and GARAMOND ALLCAPS.
Made available online and/or printed in the USA and elsewhere as a novelty and commemorative document
celebrating the publication of Steve Gerson’s PDF collection of haibun and short poems.
About the writer:
STEVEN M. GERSON, Professor Emeritus, Johnson County Community College, Overland Park, Kansas, was named 2003-2004 Kansas Professor of the Year, chosen by the Carnegie Foundation. He is the co-author, along with his wife Sharon Gerson, of 13 college-level textbooks and the author of six poetry chapbooks: Once Planed Straight: Poetry of the Prairies; Viral: Love and Losses in the Time of Insanity; The 13th Floor: Step into Anxiety; And the Land Dreams Darkly (Spartan Press-KC); There is a Season (OPEN: Journal of Arts & Letters); and What Is, Isn’t. He has published over 400 poems in many journals and is honored to have been named a finalist three times for the North Dakota State University Press Poetry of the Plains and Prairies award. Steve is most proud of his 54-year marriage to Sharon, for whom all his love poems are written, his wonderful family of Stacy, Stefani, and Rob, and for the joy of spending time with his three grandchildren: Sophia, Samantha, and Jacob. These people are the poetry of Steve’s life.
Image: The Worker by Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin (1878-1939). Oil on canvas. 4.81 x 3.3 inches. 1912. Public domain.
OJAL Art Incorporated, publishing since 2017 as OPEN: Journal of Arts & Letters (O:JA&L) and its imprints Buttonhook Press, HOT BUTTON PRESS Contemporary Issues, and HIGH BUTTON PRESS Contemporary Art, supports writers and artists worldwide.
Explore O:JA&L’s Buttonhook Press offerings on Amazon.
Subscribe to the O:JA&L YouTube channel.
Become an O:JA&L Member through Patreon.
Follow O:JA&L on Facebook.
Support Pamelyn Casto’s text for writers: Flash Fiction: Alive in the Flicker
Support O:JA&L’s free presses.
