Ron Koertge

Grieving his brother's overdose, Walker prays for help, and Jesus turns up in his small Illinois mining town.

Fourteen-year-old Kevin, poet and first baseman, is torn between his girlfriend Mira and Amy, a fellow poet, in this follow-up to Shakespeare Bats Cleanup.

Stuck at home with mono, fourteen-year-old Kevin writes poems about baseball and his mother's death.

Fifteen seniors at Branston High speak about their lives in short poems, while one classmate keeps a list of names and begins stockpiling guns.