In minute-by-minute detail, Patricia Smith tracks Hurricane Katrina as it transforms into a full-blown mistress of destruction. From August 23, 2005, the day Tropical Depression Twelve developed, through August 28 when it became a Category Five storm with its "scarlet glare fixed on the trembling crescent," to the heartbreaking aftermath, these poems evoke the horror that unfolded in New Orleans as America watched it on television. Assuming the voices...

Recounts the true story of eight bottlenose dolphins and their trainers who survived the devastation of Hurricane Katrina.

In the aftermath of Hurrican Katrina's destruction of New Orleans, Courtney Miles stole a school bus and rescued over 300 people who had no food or water. He charged past a police roadblock and argued with a National Guardsman who threatened to lock him in the makeshift jail at the Greyhound bus station. Sick with worry about his missing grandmother, he drove his passengers to safety, then went back into the city at midnight to help others.

Enduring a hardscrabble existence as the children of alcoholic and absent parents, four siblings from a coastal Mississippi town prepare their meager stores for the arrival of Hurricane Katrina while struggling with such challenges as a teen pregnancy and a dying litter of prize pups.

Art and stories documenting the Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. The author stayed for thirteen months documenting the disaster.