robert-paul-breen
Brunswick Maine
Robert Breen was born in Boston, Massachusetts graduating from University of Massachusetts with a Bachelor of Science. After his decade’s long career as a Boston firefighter, he retired taking his love of writing to the next level by attending the summer writing program at Harvard University. The Faculty of Arts and Sciences judges unanimously decided publishing the poem, “The Eighth Circle” in the2000 Harvard University’s Summer Review. / A 2015 winner of the “Joy of the Pen”, from the Topsham Public Library, Topsham, Maine, and awarded the Margaret F. Tripp Poetry Award for the poem, “Beyond Cold”. / Robert’s firefighting helmet was memorialized by the poet, Seamus Heaney in his poem, “Helmet” and appears in Heaney’s book, “District and Circles” honoring their heroic deeds.
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