From D1 Member, Duane L. Herrmann

Two poems appeared in Nature 2020/2021; ten poems, in two batches, were posted on the Spine and Page website; the Origami Poems Project published a collection of six poems entitled – Lunar Locus; Carrot Ranch Blog posted four 99 word limit flash pieces, Eskimo Pie published three poems; Adirondack Center for Writing published the story 'New Year Snow Day'; Larry's Coffee posted three poems; Last Leaves accepted two poems for publication in October 2021; Dead Mule School of Southern Lit accepted the story 'Naked in America' for publication in February 2022; and Wolf Singer Publications accepted the story story 'Suspicious Words' for publication in US/THEM to be released in November 2021.

Duane Herrmann was only two years old when his mother’s abuse caused him to consider killing himself. He was 2-1/2 when he began running away from the Eastern Kansas farm where he was born in 1951. He finally managed to escape from a traumatic childhood and from abuse that became even worse as he grew older, when he finished high school at age 17. Then he earned degrees in education and history, served as a teacher, raised four children and built a house while his family was living in it, began work as an “office drone” before ending his professional career as a supervisor for the federal government. All of his adult life Duane wrote. And wrote some more. He has now filled 158 journals with therapeutic writing that makes sense of his past. As he wrote, Herrmann discovered that just the process of writing about individual traumas peeled off more layers of memory. “Essentially, writing about the past can change the past. It puts the writer (former victim) in control of the event (trauma.) And when you are in control, you are empowered, and that power is significant.”

Duane has been a District 1 KAC member for years and is one of the most prolific writers in the state. His poems and prose have been featured in numerous national and international publications. He has even written and published two family memoirs.

​As a convention workshop presenter, Duane will show participants how to peel away their own layers of memory through journal writing…writing that heals. Anyone who is seeking help with past traumas or trouble can find the same transformation and forgiveness through writing that Duane Herrmann has discovered. And that could and should ultimately lead to a memoir that will be a star to help guide others.

If you have news of writing events that would be of interest to all Kansas Authors Club members, or if you are a member (dues current) who would like to announce an achievement, please submit your news via this form. ​

If you have news of writing events that would be of interest to all Kansas Authors Club members, or if you are a member (dues current) who would like to announce an achievement, please submit your news via this form. ​

Duane Herrmann reports more poetry publications. Congratulations, Duane!

Six poems beginning on p.76 of Hawaii Review. 

Two of my poems will be in: Iris 1.4 – "I Didn't Know," and "Wanting to be Dead"


"The Short of it," several short pieces, prose and poetry,
reblogged on: The Reluctant Poet, some of which will be included in the print anthology of last year's postings.

Just Place Chapbook, the poem "Miles and Miles"

Six of my poems have appeared in the print anthology, To The Newspaper Again, from Poet's Choice (Mumbai, India), which just arrived.

And, two more poems were published in the first issue of the 2021 Quarterly of the Topeka Genealogical Society.

If you have news of writing events that would be of interest to all Kansas Authors Club members, or if you are a member (dues current) who would like to announce an achievement, please submit your news via this form. ​

If you have news of writing events that would be of interest to all Kansas Authors Club members, or if you are a member (dues current) who would like to announce an achievement, please submit your news via this form. ​

If you have news of writing events that would be of interest to all Kansas Authors Club members, or if you are a member (dues current) who would like to announce an achievement, please submit your news via this form. ​

Congratulations to D1 member, Duane L. Herrmann, for a stellar year of publishing!

This year Duane has had four books published by four publishers - one science fiction and three poetry collections (one dual language).

New Books by Duane L. Herrmann

• Escape from Earth: the Journal of a Planetary Pioneer - or Murder on Makana (Czykmate Productions);
• Gedichte aus Prairies of Possibilities: Deutsch und Englishe (Buffalo Press);
• Family Plowing and other Prairie poems, (Meadowlark Books);
• Remnants of a Life, (Lighted Lake Press).