Dear Elizabeth, It's early morning and I'm sitting here wondering where you are, hoping you're all right. A fight, ended by a slap, sends Elizabeth out the door of her Baton Rouge home on the eve of her fifteenth birthday. Her mother, Laura, is...
As the title poem suggests, delays arrive exclusively on a personal level. (Not that some collective surface hasn’t been scratched; it has, but that surface is relatively inconsequential.) We must follow such scars; it’s who we are. This volume b...
From the acclaimed author of Letter to My Daughter comes an engrossing coming-of-age tale that deftly conveys the hopes and heartaches of adolescence, and the unfulfilled dreams that divide a family, played out against the backdrop of a small souther...
This story takes place from the streets of Minneapolis to the farmlands of southwestern Minnesota. It chronicle's the struggle of a young man who loses his family to drug violence, a broke farmer who tries a "new" kind of crop, a police detective who...