Rodger Martin

Rodger Martin’s third poetry volume, The Battlefield Guide (Hobblebush), uses locations on battlefields of the Civil War to reflect upon America today. Small Press Review selected The Blue Moon Series (Hobblebush) as a bi-monthly pick of the year. He received an Appalachia poetry award, a New Hampshire State Council on the Arts Fiction Fellowship, andContinue reading “Rodger Martin”

One Who Stands Alone

by Rodger Martin Forty-eight years ago this month, I was just returned from Vietnam, shoulders heavy with war and on my way from a home in the Pennsylvania Amish country to a new posting at Fort Devens, Massachusetts. I drove late into the night until the cold and fatigue caught me as I crossed theContinue reading “One Who Stands Alone”

East Boothbay

by Rodger Martin Just beyond the looking glass of dawn when the cormorants reel and swoop down over glassy water and up above the threaded needles of the boatyard masts, the shock of the welder’s arc, a spray of white sparks, and grumble of diesel help the yard of Goudy and Stevens give birth toContinue reading “East Boothbay”

New Hampshire Scallion

by Rodger Martin Up here, for once, humans keep silent like parents gone for the weekend leaving a house of spaces a child must fill. It is April—before the garden and still cold. The early sun tries to warm all it touches, but the breeze steals what heat it can. In most of this northern,Continue reading “New Hampshire Scallion”