Shot In The Head

•  •  •  FIRST PLACE WINNER —  2017 SUNSHOT BOOK AWARD™ FOR POETRY  •  •  • Shot In The Head focuses on a piece of history  that reverberated throughout my life. Many of the poems refer to the 1936 shooting of my grandfather, Edwin McElroy. He was shot in the head by the husband of his lover, which resulted in my grandfather’s partial paralysis. There was a trial in which the defendant, prominent local businessman J.J. Harding, was acquitted. My grand