Almost Tomorrow

Ray Nargis is an award-winning poet, short story and non-fiction writer whose work has appeared in newspapers, magazines and several award-winning anthologies. He is the host of The Pathways, a popular Sunday morning radio program on radio station, WELY, 94.5 FM in Ely, Minnesota.

“In this long-awaited collection we are made welcome in the world of Ray Nargis. Here philosophy emerges from birdhouses as owls watch men dance in gravel, and the smell of the bait box connects the childhood past to the knee-cracking, grown-up now. Humor and sadness ride on Ray’s voice together to round up wisdom from its hiding place in the cattails. The whole gambit, from delight to grief to belly laughs to sighs of hard-earned certainty, are found here. Inside the pure, clear words of this world you may feel so welcome you won’t want to leave!”

—Norm Wheeler, Director of Writing Studies, Leelanau Center for Education