Stones: The Collected Short Poems of Charles Ghigna gathers the tight poetic works of Charles Ghigna in a single volume. Ghigna is the author of more than 100 books from Random House, Hyperion, Scholastic, Simon & Schuster, Time Inc. and more than 5000 poems that appear in textbooks, anthologies, newspapers and magazines including The New Yorker, Harper's, Rolling Stone, The Village Voice and The New York Times.He served as poet-in-residence at the Alabama School of Fine Arts, instructor of creative writing at Samford University, and nationally syndicated feature writer for Tribune Media Services.