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 Epoch, The Georgia Review, Kenyon Review, POETRY, Southwest Review, and elsewhere.  

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