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    Daniel Becker

    Oct 07, 2020 2 minutes

    Age: 71. Residence: Charlottesville, Virginia. Book: 2nd Chance (New Issues Poetry Prize, New Issues Poetry & Prose, October 2020), a collect ion of poems. Agent: None. Editor: Nancy Eimers.

    I AM working on a long ruminative poem, like several in , that explains, without getting too distracted by COVID-19, why a seventy-one-year-old academic physician can’t quite retire or stop writing poems. That poem

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