B. Morrison

New memoir available now!

Innocent: Confessions of a Welfare Mother, by B. Morrison

“(This) book is a wonderful and moving testimony to the strength and power of women as individuals and as sisters, to change themselves and their worlds.”
—Marita Golden, author of After, Migrations of the Heart: An Autobiography, and Saving Our Sons: Raising Black Children in a Turbulent World.

“Barbara Morrison writes with insight and compassion about her plummet into poverty and her climb back up. The memoir is a story for now.”
—Carol Brennan, author of Headhunt, In the Dark, and Full Commission.

“Ms. Morrison eloquently refutes the notion that there is a ‘typical’ welfare recipient. With compassion and moxie, she pulls back the curtain and shows us a more complex picture.”
—Mark Vidor, Assistant Director for Family Services, Department of Human
Resources, Baltimore County Department of Social Services

ISBN: 978-1934074657
$18.95

Available from your local bookseller and:
Apprentice House
Powell’s Books
Barnes & Noble
Amazon

Tao

I stand on a bridge
half a century old
balance carefully on the rail
spread my arms and
lean into the fall.

This collection of poems from B. Morrison reveals her journey of transformation. Standing on the threshold of a new life, she examines the past and the world around her for signs in her quest to recreate herself. Calling herself a pilgrim, a pilot and an explorer, she lays aside all that is no longer of use and moves forward into the unknown.

To order, send $13.00 U.S. ($14 Canada) + $2.00 shipping and handling (add $1.00 for shipping to Canada) to:

Cottey House Press
PO Box 16381
Baltimore, MD 21210
U.S.A.

Also available from:
Itasca Books
Powell’s
Barnes & Noble
Amazon

Upcoming Events:

Poetry Discussion Group
First Saturdays
12N – 2 p.m.
Baltimore Hostel
17 W. Mulberry Street
Baltimore, MD 21201
Free; copies of poems provided

Innocent Reading & Signing
19 May 2012 10:20 a.m.
Gaithersburg Book Festival
Gaithersburg, MD
www.gaithersburgbookfestival.org/
featured_author/morrison-b

Innocent Reading & Signing
with Judith Dickerman-Nelson
22 June 2012 5 p.m.
UMass Lowell Downtown Bookstore
151 Merrimack Street
Lowell, MA 01852
978-458-3939

Innocent Reading & Signing
with Judith Dickerman-Nelson
23 June 2012 1-3 p.m.
World Eye Bookshop
156 Main Street
Greenfield, MA 01301
413-772-2186
www.worldeyebookshop.com

B. Morrison interviewed
by John Byk about Innocent
on 2012 WritersALIVE

B. Morrison interviewed
by Aaron Henkin about Innocent
WYPR’s The Signal

Innocent Book Trailer

B. Morrison has recently appeared at the
VA Festival of the Book
Indigo Bay & Bloor
Barnes & Noble JHU
Greetings & Readings
Constellation Books
The Spiral Bookcase
Baltimore Book Festival
Tellabration!
Enoch Pratt Free Library
The Ivy Bookshop

Two of B. Morrison’s poems have been published in Life in Me Like Grass on Fire: An Anthology of Love Poems
http://marylandwriters.org/

“Fishing”, an excerpt from B. Morrison’s memoir, Innocent, has won a flash fiction award from Tiny Lights and can be found in Vol. 15, No. 1.