Tight and timely, what poetry is about—in the now while brushing eternity.” /// Don Hendershot, Smoky Mountain News

A Conference of Birds is [Martin’s] first book of poetry—a thematic collection of poems that are sensitive and keen-eyed. Like a walk in the woods. An auspicious start to what promises to be a long and eventful career. /// Thomas Rain Crowe, publisher of New Native Press, author of Zoro's Field: My Life in the Appalachian Woods