Poetry

A collection of meditations and reflections on being.

Blues Legacy is a collection of exquisitely crafted poems in which the blues and other forms of African American music serve as metaphors representing the spirit of determination and perseverance that characterizes African American culture.

Poetry that uses American folk music as a lens to investigate themes of family, art, and masculinity.

A colllection of poetic reflections on the public and private life of an American intellectual giant.

Poems inspired by a love of the living world and the actions that destroy what sustains us.

Poetry that recounts Great Lakes shipwrecks through imagination and history.

Short poems that look closely at small moments in a personal history, in art, and in the natural world.

Poems that take a poignant look at societal issues and contemporary American topics, such as working-class life and twenty-first century war.

A rollicking meeting of two wildly different yet incredibly similar personas . . . the Deadman in the shape and form of a trickster and the voice of an apprentice river shaman, the Mad Angler.