Pay Attention: Poems for Oral Interpretation, edited by John Pierce, now on sale at Amazon, contains two of my longer persona pieces: "Her Last Cotillion" about Doc Holliday and his cousin Mattie (whom Melanie Wilkes in Gone With the Wind was modeled after) and "Richard Lionheart's Mummified Heart Examined" a piece in various voices about the recent discovery of King Richard's heart buried beneath a church in Rouen. The editor's intention is that this collection of poems be used for high school dramatic interpretation competitions. I thought it was a great idea, especially as he says it is difficult to find good pieces to use for this purpose. When I was in Forensics in high school, I couldn't find a piece I liked and I ended up writing my own, and after I left it was used by others.
