Welcome to Midland

If Midland, Texas, sounds vaguely familiar, it's probably because that's where Baby Jessica was rescued from a well back in 1987--an event that CNN covered around the clock and was the subject of a TV movie. But thanks to Logen Cure, the town now has another claim to fame, albeit one its tourism bureau probably won't be promoting: Welcome to Midland, her new book of poetry about her queer coming of age in West Texas oil country. Here is the Texas Observer's review, which quotes a particularly pungent line: "'They say tomboy like bless her heart'--a Texas insult if ever there was one."