I set out to write a poem in which Virgil is finally, after seven centuries, rewarded for his role in the salvation of Dante, by leading through the landscape of eternal damnation, to the Earthly Paradise and into the hands of Beatrice, during Easter week of 1300. "Virgil in Paradise" was the result.

As I progressed in the work on "Virgil in Paradise" I started thinking, "Why not an entire collection of poems that tell stories?"

The response to that questions is Stories in Verse.