Keesha's House

An unforgettable narrative collage told in poems

Keesha has found a safe place to live, and other kids gravitate to her house when they just can't make it on their own. They are Stephie--pregnant, trying to make the right decisions for herself and those she cares about; Jason--Stephie's boyfriend, torn between his responsibility to Stephie and the baby and the promise of a college basketball career; Dontay--in foster care while his parents are in prison, feeling unwanted both inside and outside the system; Carmen--arrested on a DUI charge, waiting in a juvenile detention center for a judge to hear her case; Harris--disowned by his father after disclosing that he's gay, living in his car, and taking care of himself; Katie--angry at her mother's loyalty to an abusive stepfather, losing herself in long hours of work and school.