The Caretakers by Don Barkin

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The Caretakers

by Don Barkin

$14, paper

Don 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, That Dark Lake, published by Antrim House in 2009, was a finalist for the Connecticut Center for the Book’s poetry award. His two chapbooks, The Caretakers and The Persistent, have been published by Finishing Line Press, and he has twice been awarded artist grants by the State of Connecticut. A former newspaper reporter, he was educated at Harvard and Cambridge Universities. He has taught writing at Yale, Wesleyan, and Connecticut College, and now teaches school near New Haven, Connecticut, where he lives with his wife, Maggie, and his daughter, Eve.