The President Next Door

<p>Phillip Martin reflects on decades of professional and personal experience through the poems and songs in this collection. <span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Martin currently serves as the chief film critic and a columnist for the </span><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Arkansas Democrat Gazette</em><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>. In his journalistic career Martin has been a sportswriter a criminal investigator a political columnist a sports editor the executive editor of an alternative weekly and a newspaper executive in charge of a small chain. Martin is also a songwriter (who appeared on the Merv Griffin Show in the '80s who has released two albums of original music Gastonia (2013) and Euclid Avenue (2014). and was a finalist for the 2012 James Hearst Poetry Prize.</span></p>