Friday, March 18, 2022

 

Join Us April 7, 2022, 6-7:45 pm for
1st Thursday Poetry 

 In person at Goggleworks Center for the Arts
201 Washington St., Reading 
(First floor cafe area.)  Masks required. 
 
Featured Poet Robert Fillman
Followed by an open mic

berksbards@gmail.com         https://berksbards.blogspot.com/

Robert Fillman is the author of the chapbook November Weather Spell (Main Street Rag, 2019). His poems have appeared in such journals as The Hollins CriticPoetry East, SalamanderSpoon River Poetry Review, and Tar River Poetry. His criticism has been published by ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and the EnvironmentCLAJ: The College Language Association Journal, and elsewhere. He holds a Ph.D. in English from Lehigh University and teaches at Kutztown University.   
His debut full-length collection, House Bird, a finalist for the Cider Press Review Book Award and Gerald Cable Book Award, was published in February 2022 by Terrapin Books. Here's an excerpt:

HOUSE BIRD

The evening light dislodged it
from its perch, shot it straight through

an open window, stone-gray
stopped on the mantel. How quiet

the bird became. It might be
straining silver, or pulling

the summer's edge from its beak,
which tastes of goldenrod

and zinnia seeds and mud.  

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