Houses: New and Selected Poems by Don Barkin

Barkin, Don: - 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 Book of the Year award. Two chapbooks, The Caretakers and The Persistent, have been 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 teaches school near New Haven, Connecticut, where he lives with his wife, Maggie, and his daughter, Eve.