Elegy in a Puddle

Don Barkin has published poems in Poetry, The Virginia Quarterly Review, Prairie Schooner, Poetry Northwest, the North American Review, Harvard Magazine, The Louisville Review, 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. He has published two other books with Antrim House: Houses (2017) and The Rest Stop at Wassaic (2020). He has twice been awarded artist grants by the State of Connecticut. Two chapbooks, The Caretakers and The Persistent, were published by Finishing Line Press.