About the Book

A wonderful English teacher inspired a love of poetry in Mr. Lockett during his senior year in high school. Future Memories of Trains is a collection of poems written by Mr. Lockett during the intense and tumultuous process of racial integration in America.

Themes and Inspiration

Being the speck of pepper in these elite bowls of sugar -- elite independent schools -- Mr. Lockett's poetry explores the precarious nature of inter-racial relationships and the power of love in the midst of extraordinary American social change.