In the background you can see part of the Memorial for Lauria Bible and Ashley Freeman. In the foreground the investigators turn dirt searching through areas where former root cellars
The Writer’s Chronicle, and
The Rumpus, where she is a senior poetry editor. She teaches at the University of Michigan’s Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy.
INTRODUCTION
Being a poet has taught me the value of practice and patience. I have learned that my next poem will reveal itself to me if I simply follow language by engaging with it through my (mostly) daily reading and writing practice and if I wait for that small, persistent thing a scrap of language, an image, a question that won’t leave me alone that opens a door in my mind. I’ve also learned that for me, at least poetry is slow. I often work on poems for several years before they’re finished. This morning, I think I finally found the right form for a poem I’ve been working on for four years. Last month, I finished a poem I started working on in 2010. My poems spend a long time resting, waiting for me to come back around and try again to get it right. I’m not a particularly patient person in other
‘There Will Be Answers Today,’ New Search Underway For Hell in the Heartland Teens
Oxygen.com. Lauria Bible and Ashley Freeman Photo: National Center for Missing & Exploited Children
Following a promising tip, investigators in Oklahoma are searching for an abandoned root cellar on their quest to find two teens missing since 1999.
Best friends Lauria Bible and Ashley Freeman, both 16, vanished in 1999 after Freeman’s family home went up in flames with her parents, Danny and Kathy Freeman, inside. The parents had been shot to death before the fire. While the teens are presumed dead, their remains have never been found.