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Part I of "The Clay Jar" includes haiku and senryu poems written over the past 25 years. Many of the poems were originally published in "frogpond," the journal of the Haiku Society of America, as well as in other nationally and internationally recognized journals, magazines and anthologies. Part II includes haibun, a form of poetry which combines short prose and haiku. It is often used as a form of travel diary. The collected poems reflect the author's sense of irony and social conscience as she observes human relations and emotions, world events and the natural world. The poet's style aims...

Before the United States Supreme Court overturned states' laws against miscegenation as unconstitutional in 1967, Caroline Giles Banks, a white woman, defied laws and mores of her native Texas and married a man of African descent. "The Weight of Whiteness" is a memoir, in poetry form, of the author's girlhood, courtship and interracial marriage during the heyday of the civil rights era in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. Responses to her marriage include awe, disappointment and rejection. Daily family activities such as going to the beauty shop, park, church, and playground elicit curiosity,...

"Picture a Poem: Ekphrastic and Other Poems" features poems written in response to paintings, sculptures and photographs, many of which are in museums in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Paintings and photographs by Marc Chagall, Georgia O'Keeffe, Jacob Lawrence, Robert Gwathmey, Lee Friedlander, among others, inspired many of the ekphrastic poems. Some of the poems reference sculptures by artists who worked in the pre-modern era and are therefore unknown to us in the early 21st century. Other poems in the collection, while not written in response to specific works of art, reveal the author's use of...