Messages to Lelia is a book of haiku and other poems by a poet based in Memphis, Tennessee. His poetry springs from wide-ranging experience connected with his family history and with local Southern cultures in Mississippi and West Tennessee. His poetry sparkles with life, deep-rooted as it is in the soil of the Mid-South.
“Billy Reed is a salty saint, sprinkling light on dark paths in a laser-speared poetry that invites us all to dance, laugh, and pray. It will bless you if you let it.” —John Kilzer, Ph.D.
Billy Reed will be Signing Messages to Lelia at Off Square Books August 14 at 5 pm.