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In FOXHAWK IT BEGINS, a coming-of-age, noir crime novel, Charlie Foxhawk Carter is assigned to investigate an insurance claim tied to a murder in 1968 San Francisco. His attention is diverted from the claim when a friend becomes the primary murder suspect. A top-secret governmental agency and Charlie's love life further complicates matters.

In LEAH MAKING THE SCENE, a coming-of-age, noir crime novel, Charlie Foxhawk Carter is hired to get Leah Travail, a new arrival to 1970 Marin County, California, and Tony Vitolinich, a childhood friend, off the hook as suspects in the murder of an infamous drug dealer.

In FOXHAWK IT BEGINS, a coming-of-age, noir crime novel, Charlie Foxhawk Carter is assigned to investigate an insurance claim tied to a murder in 1968 San Francisco. His attention is diverted from the claim when a friend becomes the primary murder suspect. A top-secret governmental agency and Charlie's love life further complicates matters.

In LEAH MAKING THE SCENE, a coming-of-age, noir crime novel, Charlie Foxhawk Carter is hired to get Leah Travail, a new arrival to 1970 Marin County, California, and Tony Vitolinich, a childhood friend, off the hook as suspects in the murder of an infamous drug dealer.

The words are already there. All you have to do is find them. The words are lurking, refracted, shredded, retrieved by a miner of meaning, a literary gangster, my good fellow, Mike Maggio, Master of the found poem. Where Maggio rules, he combs. He creates poetic mayhem. He has a genius for extracting meaning from rubble. For finding the Poem lurking on the toothpaste tube, the road sign, in the computer's 0s and 1s. He doesn't write with his computer. He paints with it. Think fluxus. Think surrealism resurged. Think dada and its dangerous delights. There are echoes of Yoko Ono here and just a hint of John Cage. Yeats is here somewhere as well, closing in to the process of rebirth, for Maggio knows his literary heritage. Beauty slips in, as does funny, creative rip rap, politics, and graphic choice. Barth is somewhere here too. And Riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, may or may not be served with a jigger of Joyce.

In Stone Bird, Poems of Exile, David Anthony Sam imagines a contemporary Syrian exiled from the civil war but also from all he has known, finding a safer place but not a welcoming one in the United States. Behind the collection lies the diaspora from the Syrian Civil War and the Arab emigration of the last 150 years, including the ghost of Sam's Syrian grandfather who immigrated to America a century ago and did not find the streets paved with gold. Finally, these poems speak to the more universal experience of "exile" as part of the human condition.