Storage Issues

Storage Issues pictures an individual wandering through the remains of communal life. These personal lyric and narrative poems search for meaning in the background, events, and concerns of one Mennonite woman¿s existence. The poems invoke archetypal help and seek elemental order, but they also accept the changing world. The collection gathers published and unpublished poems from 1988-2008. During these decades, the poet raised children, divorced, studied, wrote, taught, and remarried.

The poems of Suzanne Kay Miller, Wichita, Kansas, have won awards sponsored by the Winfield (Kan.) Arts and Humanities Council, The Associated Church Press Association, and the Evangelical Press Association. During the years she wrote these poems, she raised four children, worked a variety of part-time jobs, and earned degrees. Currently, she teaches writing at Friends University and is at work on another book of poems.