WEB EXCLUSIVE: What did death row inmate Thomas Arthur have to say to Thicket's Lee Hurley? Listen here >

This is a story about Thomas Arthur, a man on death row. I went to watch him die. Read more >

Since my father read to me a Little Golden Book called The Sailor Dog by Margaret Wise Brown, I’ve been hooked on words, and in my youth I thought all parents read to their children. While in graduate school, I was jolted out of this fantasy in my poetry workshop when I learned from a fellow classmate that his parents didn’t read to him. How in the world did he come to be a poet, I thought? Read more >