From early workshop poems to poems scribbled in solitary midnight hours to poems declaimed atop the volcano, Allocution follows the author's personal and poetical vision over four decades.
"One hell of a poet!" - Charles Simic
Nicholas Fillmore is the author of Smuggler, an IndieReader Discovery Award-winning memoir and screenplay, The Gospel of Satan, a novella, and Sins of Our Fathers, a novel (forthcoming). He attended the graduate writing program at University of New Hampshire, was a finalist for the Juniper Prize, The Hudson Prize and others, and co-founded Squid magazine in Provincetown, MA. He lives in Boston and Hawaii with his wife and daughter and teaches college English.