"Currently, many publications bristle with a didactic public poetry that, though well-intentioned, is flawed by parochial righteousness. Kent Gramm's public voice which regularly employs rhyming couplets or blank verse with an unabashed old school earnestness remains untainted by preachiness. I admire the genuine democracy found in Gramm's public poems whose subjects range widely from the topical to the historical to the poignantly elegiac, resonating with biting Swiftian wit, pure humor, and Frostian wisdom. This fulsome collection is quite smart and much fun." --William Hathaway, author of Dawn Chorus: New & Selected Poems, 1972-2017.