Poetry Month Reading with Don Barkin & Ed Meeks

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Come enjoy an hour of poetry readings by two Berkshire poets reading from their work.

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). His latest book, Elegy in a Puddle, was
publish in 2025 by Finishing Line Press. He has twice been awarded artist grants by the State of Connecticut.
Don Barkin was educated at Harvard and Cambridge universities. He is a former newspaper reporter. He
has taught writing at Yale, Wesleyan, and Connecticut College. He has also taught high school. In the
Berkshires, he teaches for Olli and for Kimball Farms. He lives in Monterey with his wife, Maggie, and in New
Haven. They have a daughter, Eve.

Ed Meek writes poetry, fiction, essays and book reviews. His new book of poems, Great Pond,
has just come out with Kelsay Books. His collection of short stories is called Luck. In the
Cooling Twilight, a memoir, is coming out this spring. Downward Dog, his first children’s book,
is due out this summer. He writes book reviews for The Arts Fuse.
He has had work in The Sun, The Paris Review, Plume, The North American Review, The Boston
Globe, Berkshire Magazine, Counter Punch, The Christian Science Monitor. He teaches reading
and writing poetry and fiction at the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute. Recently he moved to
Great Barrington from Somerville with his wife Elizabeth and their labradoodle Mookie.