Slaughter of the Innocents showcases Eugene Platt’s masterful ability to blend local and universal themes through precise, evocative poetry. Drawing on biblical references and contemporary events, these poems navigate between earthly grit and spiritual grace, offering piercing insights into human nature while calling readers to contemplation ...

Eugene Platt was born in Charleston, South Carolina, in 1939. After serving in the Army, he graduated from the University of South Carolina and earned a Diploma in Anglo-Irish Literature at Trinity College Dublin.

(by Eugene Platt from the collection “Summer Days with Daughter,” © 1999.) Summer Days with Daughter is available at Charleston County Public Library

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Saint Andrew’s Parish, a new novel by Eugene Platt, was published today and is available in paperback and e-book editions here on Amazon.com.

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Eugene Platt, an octogenarian, is the Town of James Island poet laureate as well as St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church’s poet-in-residence. He graduated from the University of South Carolina and holds a diploma in Anglo-Irish Literature from Trinity College Dublin.

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