The President Next Door

Phillip Martin reflects on decades of professional and personal experience through the poems and songs in this collection. Martin currently serves as the chief film critic and a columnist for the Arkansas Democrat Gazette. 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.