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by Charles W. Pratt

The lines of these poems are as cleanly pruned and thickly budded as the limbs of a well-tended orchard. And like an orchard, Pratt's collection reveals the beauty that's possible when human design harmonizes with the flow of nature. Pigs and porcupines, grand vistas and grandchildren, the year's wild cycle and the yearning heart, all receive their due attention here, caught up in a poet's lucid and caring imagination.
                                                      ***Scott Russell Sanders

Charlie Pratt's poems come to us smelling of woods and fields and apple trees. Well-made as a New England farm-house, they dare to make good sense in a time when its considered "cool" not to. They speak from the heart about what the heart cares about--all of our hearts.

                                                     ***Charles Harper Webb

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Winner of the 2007

FLP Prize in Poetry

Charles W. Pratt, a former English teacher, has for the past 25 years with his wife Joan owned and operated a small apple orchard in southeastern New Hampshire. His first book of poems, In the Orchard (with drawings by Arthur Balderacchi, Tidal Press), was selected as a Notable Book for 1986 by the American Library Association.

Charles Pratt on PBS

Charles Pratt featured in National PBS documentary profiling New England writers workshop.

Finishing Line author Charles Pratt, joins other members of the
long-running, Skimmilk Farm writers workshop in the half hour documentary MONDAYS AT SKIMMILK: 30 YEARS OF WRITERS AT WORK.  Released in 2008, through American Public Television, MONDAYS AT SKIMMILK has aired all over the PBS system, and continues to pick up air dates.  The film celebrates the wit and wisdom of some of New England's top writers, mostly poets, in interviews and workshop scenes from Skimmilk Farm, the summer home in southern NH, of poet Jean Pedrick.   Founded by members of the Alice James Books press in the 1970's, the workshop attracted many writers, nurturing the careers of several noted poet laureates of NH, essayist Nancy Mairs, and Pratt, who became the first male member of the group.

Boston Globe called MONDAYS AT SKIMMILK a " fitting tribute" and current NH Poet Laureate Pat Farignoli called the film "exquisite....a joy to watch".   For more information and to order a DVD of the film contact:  skimmilk@kbprods.com
or call Ken Browne Productions at 212 240 9044. 

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