Charles A. Stone

Once A Swamp is a book of essays and poems on the ascendance and character of the Trump Administration. Unlike, inflammatory attacks of many contemporary writers, Dr. Stone takes a balanced view, definitely pro-Trump, but without exaggeration and hyperbole meant to undermine an elected representative of the people. The essays are thought-provoking and the poetry is both fair and honest.

di-v rs -city is an annual anthology of poetry, published annually to coincide with the Austin International Poetry Festival. Di-v rs -city, the anthology, has two faces - one for adults and one for youth. Submissions are blindly reviewed by the editors or a panel of readers. Every year a prestigious poet is asked to judge the poetry competition for the adult and youth anthology. The Judge turns over a winner's list to the Festival Director who announces the results during the festival.

Dr. Stone, an avocational archeologist and poet, offers here a number of poems about archeology per se and the cultures of indigenous people of the United States. The poems range from material used in tool-making to thoughts about artifacts by contemporary archeologists to religious and cultural beliefs about early people of this country. The poems focus on prehistoric archeology.

Bridging the Gaps is a book of poems about contract bridge - the players, partnerships, bidding and playing encountered at bridge clubs or at home-based games. The poems are nothing more than observations made by a player and student of one of the world's most popular card games. As such, anyone who has played the game will enjoy this small volume of five dozen poems.