As X. J. Kennedy says, “for decades now, Charles Pratt has been quietly placing his distinctive poems in leading journals. Now at last the size of his achievement is made visible.”     From the Box Marked Some Are Missing includes selected poems from three of Pratt’s earlier books, along with a generous number of poems that have not appeared in book form before. The whole of Pratt’s long and distinguished writing career is represented.     Pratt’s poems—often quite formal, but usually in disguised fashion—are as tart and crisp as the apples from his orchard, and will delight many kinds of readers. Charles Pratt is a longtime resident of Brentwood, New Hampshire and owner, with his wife, of an apple orchard that has inspired many of his widely published poems. Becky Dennison Sakellariou was born and raised in New England and lived much of her adult life in Greece.  She is now “making her way home” to New Hampshire to settle for at least half of the year.  A teacher and mediator/counselor, she has recently published in White Pelican Review, Beloit Poetry Journal and Common Ground Review.     Former New Hampshire Poet Laureate Patricia Fargnoli calls the poems in Becky's lastest collection, Earth Listening, “carefully crafted with astonishing phrases and beautiful language and rhythms. Earth Listening, with its depth, its explorations of love and loss, and its spiritual awareness, seems to me like one long prayer. I love this book.”      The poems in Earth Listening reflect the complex tapestries of the two very different worlds that Sakellariou inhabits. She says, “These poems also explore what I call the beginning of dying; the way our pores open to the world even more intensely as we age and as death appears more visceral around us. There is both the contradiction and balance, the push and pull of that continual ‘making sense of the world.’ ”