For Every Girl book launch

A new collection of poetry. A celebration. Please join me, these new and selected poems. A book launch: For Every Girl. Published by Widow and Orphan House.

My friend, Jeff Knorr, the poet, writes that For Every Girl is “a collection dissimilar to most new and selected books. These poems, from a life of writing, come together in an arc that pulls us like ‘a rope across her palm’ into girlhood, adolescence into adulthood where the illusions of family become broken and truth reigns. We love hard and deeply in this book—cousins, aunts, uncles, mother, lovers. And even in the deepest betrayals Ms. Gray makes us hold in one hand pain and the other compassion, in one hand loss the other hope.”

I hope you’ll celebrate with me. These poems rise with the love you’ve shown.