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Troutwatching by Dallas Crow
by | Apr 19, 2026 | Book Reviews | by Robert Fillman While Dallas Crow’s poetry collection Troutwatching seems to take fishing as its ostensible subject, the poems themselves are far less concerned with trout or bait or tackle than with fatherhood, aging, and the challenges faced in middle life. Having said that, a confession is in order: I’ve been fishing only twice in my life. Once as a boy, with my father and older brother—we caught nothing, not even a nibble.
Twenty Four Poems by John Yamrus
by Robert Fillman John Yamrus has build a reputation around his unpretentious affect and stylistic restraint, which he has honed for over five decades and across 29 volumes of poetry, including this one published in December 2022. Despite the author’s leaning toward minimalism, Yamrus’s latest offering, Twenty Four Poems, lands like a punch in the gut.
Twenty Four Poems by John Yamrus
by Robert Fillman John Yamrus has build a reputation around his unpretentious affect and stylistic restraint, which he has honed for over five decades and across 29 volumes of poetry, including this one published in December 2022. Despite the author’s leaning toward minimalism, Yamrus’s latest offering, Twenty Four Poems, lands like a punch in the gut.
When Life Could Be a Dream
Northside, Pittsburgh, PA, July 1974. Photo by John L. Alexandrowicz, credit: National Archives and Records Administration, cataloged under the National Archives Identifier (NAID) 557272.
Poem Ending With a Line from Tomas Tranströmer (via Robin Robertson)
Home › Article › Poem Ending With a Line from Tomas Tranströmer (via Robin Robertson) Photo by Sharon Pruitt, of Pink Sherbet Photography January 4, 2023 Oh to be veering along Baum Boulevard to the beatus via north, where the squalls of Mercer vanish for a minute, horizon a violet knife-cut, curtain of snow throbbing at the grade’s bottom— none of which you’ll know, my dear, no matter how loud the ringing tambourines of ice.
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