Please join us on March 12th for a signing with Eugene Platt featuring his most recent published collection Weaned on War.

About Eugene Platt:

A Charleston, SC native, Eugene Platt has given over 100 public readings of his work across the nation.  After graduating from St. Andrew’s Parish High School, Eugene served three years in the U.S. Army as a paratrooper and chaplain’s assistant. He earned a B.A. at the University of South Carolina and did graduate study at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland. He served as an elected member of the James Island Public Service District Commission from 1993-2020. Some of his poems have been choreographed and in 2002 he was appointed the first Poet Laureate of the Town of James Island.

About Weaned on War:

Eugene Platt’s volume of Collected Poems provides the reader with an eloquent distillation of five decades of humor, heartache, history, and love. Whether writing about the simple pleasure of eating a Folly Beach hotdog or the profound permutations of the passage of time, Platt brings his world—and all of our worlds—alive. — Wesley Moore, English teacher (retired); author, Today, Oh Boy