Being the Parent of an Opiate Addict: A Real-Time Poetic Response

This is a true story, told in a series of intense, accessible, poems that evoke a father's real-life experience of losing his 23-year-old son, a highly articulate college graduate who had the misfortune of discovering opiates as a young teenager and developing an addiction that led to his death.

Lee Warner Brooks has been a partner in a major Detroit law firm, an editor of the Michigan Law Review, an editor and writer for publishers in Pennsylvania and Maryland, and a winner of the Detroit Moth storySLAM. He is the author of Novlets: 67 Sonnets; has published poems in journals such as The Iowa Review, Parody, and Light Quarterly; and has also contributed to anthologies of journal keeping, memoir, and "lawyer poets". He teaches writing at the University of Michigan in Dearborn and Ann Arbor.