I’m excited to announce that Turning Plow Press has published Once Upon a Tar Creek: Mining for Voices. My book takes place in Oklahoma where both my grandmother and great grandmother worked at the Quapaw Indian Agency when Oklahoma was still Indian Territory, my grandfather worked in the lead and zinc mines, and my mother grew up.
The water in Tar Creek is orange and the area has been called the “worst environmental disaster no one has heard of.” The book is part eco-poetry, part memoir, part history. Twenty years of researching, wandering, and listening to hundreds of stories made the book finally possible.
