2009 Roanoke-Chowan Award for Poetry

The Serial Killer’s Daughter received the 2009 Roanoke-Chowan Award for Poetry from the NC Literary and Historical Society.

A Staged Reading of The Serial Killer's Daughter

Louise Rockwell, who staged the production, passed away on February 4, 2011.  Louise was the heart and soul of the production. Her death came as a great shock to most of her friends. As we mourn her death and seek ways to honor her memory all performances have been suspended.

The stage production premiered in March, 2009, at the Warehouse theater in Cornelius, NC, to a full house. 

Louise brought these poems and characters alive. Under her sensitive and skillful stage management, the words connect with audiences as only a live performance can. The staged reading also includes new, unpublished poems. The cast includes the professional actress Marla Brown (Velma), Terri Wolfe (the daughter), Richard Allen Taylor (numerous male voices), and Pat Riviere-Seel (the reporter).

The poems in this poetry collection arise from the life and execution of Velma Barfield. Told from different points of view, the poems explore the mother/daughter relationship between Velma and her grown daughter.

2009 Pushcart Nomination

Redheaded Stepchild, an online journal, has nominated my poem "Letting Go" for a Pushcart Prize. You can read the poem in their archives - it appears in the Srping 2009 edition.

Read a review of The Serial Killer's Daughter by Scott Owens in The Wild Goose Poetry Review
The spring issue has a couple of new poems too.

Geneve Bacon has posted a review on the Flatiron Writers site. Check out my "conversation" on the same site and also discover some fine Asheville writers there.

Rob Neufeld's review appears in the Asheville Citizen-Times
Sunday, February 8, 2009

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