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Wednesday, May 23, 2018

"Before Dawn" by David St. John

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May 23, 2018
 

Before Dawn

 
David St. John
David St. John reads "Before Dawn."

About This Poem

 

"Those late-night, before-dawn conversations we once had routinely with friends when young later become inadvertent accountings of what's been gained, but also of what's been lost, along the way—those unexpected human expenses exacted by and paid to experience."
—David St. John

 

David St. John's most recent collection of poetry is The Last Troubadour: New and Selected Poems (Ecco, 2017). A Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, he is also chair of English at the University of Southern California and lives in Venice Beach, California.

 

Photo credit: Stephanie Diani

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