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Today's poem is "Checkpoint"

from Bennington Review

David Baker's recent book is Swift: New and Selected Poems (W. W. Norton, 2019). He is Poetry Editor of The Kenyon Review and teaches at Denison University in Ohio.

Other poems by David Baker in Verse Daily:
November 20, 2019:   "December" "Instead, there is an hour, a moment..."
October 24, 2005:   "October Storm" " The green sky, / the gray-green sky..."
July 2, 2002:  "After Rain" "You have to turn your back to the animals..."

Books by David Baker:

Other poems on the web by David Baker:
Fifty poems
Twelve poems
Two poems
"Scavenger Loop"

David Baker According to Wikipedia.

David Baker on Twitter.

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Editor: Michael Dumanis

Poems from Bennington Review previously featured on Verse Daily:
March 24, 2020:   "Our Lady of Thoughts and Prayers" by Alison Pelegrin
March 27, 2019:   Of Course" Lisa Fay Coutley
March 25, 2019:   "Shovel" Jericho Brown
August 7, 2017:   "Decimation" by Raymond McDaniel &
August 3, 2017:   "The Nacreous Interior" by Ryo Yamaguchi
August 2, 2017:   "Paradise" by Andy Stallings
August 1, 2017:   "[In this small tent men pound]" by Gale Marie Thompson

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