UC Riverside

Maurice Havenor is a young Los Angeles poet whose commitment to gritty, down-and-dirty street poetry is… well… extreme. It’s extreme because Maurice must compensate. You see Maurice is not from the streets. In fact, he’s from the plush boutique Northern California winery that bears his family name. From Vineyard to Vine is a novel that charts Maurice’s sometimes-misguided quest to become an authentic poet.