The poems in Troutwatching, like beautiful fish, glimmer briefly on the surface before disappearing, the illumination they bring sparkling like a fragile bubble about to burst.
Troutwatching by Dallas Crow
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Robert Fillman
Robert Fillman is the author of The Melting Point (Broadstone, 2025), House Bird (Terrapin, 2022), and the chapbook November Weather Spell (Main Street Rag, 2019). Individual poems have appeared in The Hollins Critic, Poetry East, Salamander, Spoon River Poetry Review, Tar River Poetry, Verse Daily, and elsewhere. His criticism has been published in ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and the Environment, College Literature, Journal of Modern Literature, and elsewhere. He is an assistant professor at Kutztown University in eastern Pennsylvania and the poetry editor at Pennsylvania English.
Twenty Four Poems by John Yamrus
The fact that this poem swept me into a multiverse of shared experience…underscores the value of Yamrus’s larger project, which is to see the beauty that surrounds us before it is too late.