Today's poem is
"Nothing Will Warn You"
from New Letters
Stephen Dunn
is the recipient of a 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry,
an Arts & Letters Prize in Literature from The American Academy of
Arts and Letters, fellowships from the Guggenheim and Rockefeller
Foundations, and three National Endowment for the Arts creativewriting
fellowships . He is the author of 20 books of prose and poetry,
most recently Degrees of Fidelity (Tiger Bark P, 2018). His collection
Pagan Virtues is forthcoming in fall 2019 from W. W. Norton. He is
a distinguished professor emeritus of creative-writing at Stockton
University and lives in Frostburg, Maryland.
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