Poetry
In Nameless as the Minnows poems move through an early consideration of one's yet unrealized self being washed toward a faceless future, into an exploration of growth and resilience through family and loss, and farther into the miracles of forming a new family and finding one's true name among the wonders of the natural world, culminating in the spirit yet reaching toward the stars, the universe, still questioning the unknowable and praising "the small rituals of becoming and being."
A collection of poems that move from consideration of fossils embedded in earth's oldest mountains, to memories of a childhood spent in a "secret city" during World War II, through the many gardens the poet has tended, touched always by the many people who have shared that life.
Winner of the 2013 Brick Road Poetry Press contest.
Tender and fierce, compressed and expansive--an arc of lyrical galaxies. Marilyn Kallet
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Writing for Young People
A novel for young people set in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, during the closing year of World War II.
Set in the Kentucky coal camps of 1924, Emmy is the story of a family's struggle for survival.