Worldly Things Turkey -occupied Okinawa when she met

-occupied Okinawa when she met the American soldier who would become her husband

and living a meaningful life

She carries nothing with her but her wits

and a squad of laborers at work on a national monument

Clark the Shark celebrates boisterous enthusiasm--and knowing when it's time for indoor voices

Worldly Things Turkey -occupied Okinawa when she met"Sometimes," writes Michael Kleber Diggs writes in this winner of the Max Ritvo Poetry Prize, "everything reduces to circles and lines." In these poems, Kleber Diggs names delight in the same breath as loss. Moments suffused with love teaching his daughter how to drive; watching his grandmother bake a cake; waking beside his beloved to ponder trumpet mechanics couple with moments of wrenching grief a father's life ended by a gun; mourning children