Poetry. "LATE NIGHT CALLS is a gathering of messages that comes to us deep in our lives, where they bring the important news that it's all right to let ourselves care for one another, it's all right to give words of tenderness. The most remarkable of these fabulous poems are both fairy tales that articulate our wakeful sleep, and bedtime stories against the dark, lending reassurance and calm to those nights when we turn between loss and failure. Like the caller of the title poem, Mark Vinz 'needs to be heard.' We need to listen"—Jay Meek.

Author City: MOORHEAD, MN USA

Mark Vinz is author or editor of more than 15 poetry collections, including THE WORK IS ALL (Red Dragonfly Press, 2011). He is a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship in poetry. Other honors include three Minnesota book awards, and a poet laureate title in North Dakota. Vinz taught at Minnesota State University Moorhead for forty years. He is now retired.