Don BarkinDon Barkin has published poems in Poetry, The Virginia Quarterly Review, Prairie Schooner, Poetry Northwest, the North American Review, Harvard Magazine, The Louisville Review, Commonweal, and other journals. A full-length collection of his poems, Tht Dark Lake, published by Antrim House in 2009, was a finalist for the Connecticut Center for the Book's Poetry Book of the Year award. Houses, New and Selected Poems, was published by Antrim House in 2017. Two chapbooks, The Caretakers and The Persistent, were published by Finishing Line Press. He has twice been awarded artist grants by the State of Connecticut. He is a former newspaper reporter and was educated at Harvard and Cambridge Universities. He has taught writing at Yale, Wesleyan, and Connecticut College. He lives in New Haven, Connecticut with his wife, Maggie, and his daughter, Eve. Read More Read Less