David Moolten is the author of three poetry collections: Primitive Mood (Truman State University Press, 2009), which won the T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry; Especially Then (David Robert Books, 2005); and Plums & Ashes (Northeastern University Press, 1994), which won the Samuel French Morse Poetry Prize. His poetry can be found in The Georgia Review, Poetry, Epoch, The Kenyon Review, Southwest Review, and elsewhere. He is a physician who lives, writes, and practices in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.  

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