Berks Bards

 

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 Critic, Poetry East, Salamander, Spoon River Poetry Review, and Tar River Poetry. His criticism has been published by ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and the Environment, CLAJ: 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.