St. Paul poet and teacher Stan Kusunoki announced publication of his second book of poetry. Kusunoki said, “This collection is more wide ranging than my previous book, 180 Days. It begins with my parents’ and grandparents’ experiences, including the internment of Japanese Americans in prison camps following the attack on Pearl Harbor.”

In other sections, Kusunoki writes about a neighbor boy who was abused, imagines the experience of a young Syrian immigrant, pays homage to notables in his life, and recalls the budding friendship with “the girl across the street.”

Since much of the work is topical, Kusunoki thought it would be novel to set the book up in a newspaper format.

“My undergraduate training was in Journalism,” he says, “and it’s fun to work with that style and format again.”