in the wake of the Franklin Fire just a couple days from his ninety-ninth birthday. I imagine him composed, still able to sidestep that pesky ill-placed ottoman on his way out the door even in old age. Only instead of his house, the apartment in New Rochelle, that stylish “wedge” couch, everything mid-century modern. And […]
Robert Fillman
Robert Fillman is the author of The Melting Point (Broadstone Books, 2025), House Bird (Terrapin Books, 2022), and the chapbook, November Weather Spell (Main Street Rag, 2019). Individual poems have appeared in Salamander, Spoon River Poetry Review, Tar River Poetry, and Verse Daily. He has received prizes from Sheila-Na-Gig online, Third Wednesday, and The Twin Bill for select poems. Fillman teaches at Kutztown University in eastern Pennsylvania and is the poetry editor at Pennsylvania English.