Messages to Lelia: Haiku, Short Poems, and Longer Poems

A book of haiku and other poems by a noted Mid-South poet based on Memphis, Tennessee. His poetry springs from wide-ranging experience connected with his family history and with local Southern cultures in Mississippi and West Tennessee. His poetry sparkles with life, deep-rooted as it is in the soil of the Mid-South.

"Billy Reed is a salty saint, sprinkling light on dark paths in a laser-speared poetry that invites us all to dance, laugh, and pray. It will bless you if you let it." --John Kilzer, Ph.D.

Poetry Salon: Billy Reed is available for poetry readings at large and small social and public gatherings. To schedule a reading and book-signing, please contact the author at:

E-Mail: bill@wlreed.com

Banner image: photo by Thomas R. Machnitzki