by Sue Repko | Jun 21, 2022 | Memoirs
In this compact and haunting memoir, Gregory Orr, Professor Emeritus at the University of Virginia, shares the immediate and long-term impact of his unintentional shooting of a younger brother, when he himself was just 12 years old, while hunting with their father.... by Sue Repko | Jun 15, 2022 | Memoirs
This memoir by Pulitzer Prize winner and former US Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey takes readers on a tender, inquisitive, and insightful journey into her relationship with her Black mother, who was murdered in Atlanta by an abusive ex-husband/stepfather when... 
by Sue Repko | May 14, 2020 | Poetry
In the poetry collection Brother Bullet, poet Casandra López explores her grief in the wake of the death of her brother, Joseph, who was killed by gun violence in December 2010. Lopez takes a reader through the terrain of memory, individual and collective. From the... 
by Sue Repko | Apr 6, 2020 | Mixed Genre, Other Nonfiction, Personal Essays
This critical volume provides sweeping testimony from survivors of just a fraction of U.S. school shootings, beginning in 2018 and working back chronologically to the University of Texas at Austin shooting in 1966, recognized as the first mass school shooting in the... 
by Sue Repko | Mar 10, 2020 | Essays, Mixed Genre, Poetry
In Parkland Speaks, Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School English and journalism teacher and yearbook advisor Sarah Lerner has compiled the experiences and responses of 40 students and 2 other teachers, in addition to her own, to the events of February 14, 2018....