Transforming Society One Story at a Time

There's Jews In Texas? By Debra L. Winegarten

There’s Jews in Texas?

By Debra L. Winegarten

 

"Debra L. Winegarten writes frank, funny, poignant, punchy poems. This collection shines with radiant spirit."
Naomi Shihab Nye, Guggenheim Fellow
Board of Chancellors, American Academy of Poets

How do we know who we are? When you're a minority, everyone else likes to define you. When you're a little Jewish girl in 1960s Dallas, they tell you you're going to hell, your prayers are better, and you have perfect pitch -- and you wonder why they put your locker next to the locker of the only black kid in the class. Debra Winegarten's poems are sharp, sometimes poignant, sometimes funny, but always on the mark when it comes to our difficult understanding (and self-understanding) of difference. Her poems move through those childhood lessons in identity and survival to the loss of her mother and the inevitable dislocation such loss may create, exploring always our instinctual hungers for family, ritual, and tribe.


- Dr. Ed Madden, Associate Professor of English, University of South Carolina More Info

 

Katherine Stinson

Katherine Stinson: The Flying
Schoolgirl

by Debra L. Winegarten

This new book is a refreshing, swift-moving biography of Katherine Stinson who, as a high-spirited young girl, was determined to fly.

 

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Mums the word

Mum's the Word: A Tribute to
Ruthe Winegarten

by Debra L. Winegarten

Debra secretly xeroxed her mother's Rolodexes and gathered 140 amazing stores about Ruthe.

 

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Strong Family Ties

Strong Family Ties

by Winegarten and Winegarten

The first African-American in Texas to own and operate a nursing home, this book brings to life the story of Dr. Leona "Tiny" Hawkins.

 

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Debra Winegarten

is available for speaking engagements and poetry workshops. Contact her by email or call 512.789.5491.