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Keeping The Dark At Bay: A 2020 Poetry Preview

Poet and critic Craig Morgan Teicher presents his annual roundup of the poetry he's looking forward to. This year, he's showcasing a group of poets who he says are holding the darkness at bay.
Source: Penguin Press

This is the third of these poetry previews that I've written in the growing darkness of America. I've maintained that while poets alone can't

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