Jordan Stempleman
Associate Professor of Liberal Arts
Bio
Jordan Stempleman’s latest collection, Spilt, received the 2025 Wishing Jewel Prize for poetic innovation from Green Linden Press. He has also published nine previous poetry collections, including Cover Songs (the Blue Turn), Wallop, and No, Not Today (Magic Helicopter Press).
Stempleman is the editor of Windfall Room and serves as faculty advisor for the Kansas City Art Institute's literary arts journal Sprung Formal. From 2011 to 2025, he curated A Common Sense Reading Series in Kansas City, Missouri, and from 2007 to 2025, he co-edited The Continental Review, one of the longest-running online literary magazines dedicated to video poetics.
The Huffington Post named Stempleman one of "The Top 200 Advocates of American Poetry." He is an associate professor in the Liberal Arts Department and the Creative Writing Program at the Kansas City Art Institute.