"Piece Work"

The latest collection of poems, "Piece Work," captures the rich texture of the community of mill workers.

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"Los Hijos"

This collection of poetry is taken almost literally from journal entries written during a mission trip to Galeana, Nuevo Leon, Mexico, where orphanage children, rebels, and sometimes very conflicted Americans try to work together.

"Unravelings"

Winner of the Longleaf Press Competition and the Oscar Arnold Young Award for Best Book, 1999. With poems like "June Bride," which pokes fun at the traditional marriage month, and "Catcher," where the mother becomes aware of her son's shift into manhood and individuality, "Unravelings" wrestles with the inevitability of growing older.

"Sherry's Prayer"

Winner of the 2004 Linda Flowers Prize. This small broadside is a suite of poems in the first person voices of millworkers in the Piedmont region of North Carolina, with accompanying photos from a local factory.

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"Snake Dreams"

Winner of the Zoe Kincaid Brockman Award for Best Book, 1995. Called "southern lyric" by reviewers, it is a tribute to the bold, eccentric, and admirable people—including family—who live in the North Carolina and Kentucky foothills and mountains.