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David Moolten

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I'm the author of three books of poetry, the most recent of which, Primitive Mood, won the T.S. Eliot Prize from Truman State University Press, and was published in 2009.

My verse has appeared widely in anthologies and in magazines such as Ploughshares, Poetry, The Georgia Revew, The Iowa Review, and The Sewanee Review.

I'm also a physician specializing in transfusion medicine, and I live, write and practice in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania."

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	Primitive Mood 4.25 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2009 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Especially Then it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2005	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Plums and Ashes by David Moolten (Goodreads Author), David Ferry (Introduction) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1994	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	River Styx #96 by Richard Newman (Editor), Steven Schreiner, Cortney Lamar Charleston (Goodreads Author) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Smartish Pace: Issue 30 by Stephen Reichert (Editor), Christopher Childers (Contributor), Peter Grandbois (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sugar House Review #13: Spring/Summer '16 by David Adamson (Contributor), Darren C. Demaree (Contributor), Cortney Lamar Charleston (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2016	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain

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The Ministry of Fear

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“We can’t live in the past, but it lives in us,

from “Metal Detector,” The American Poetry Review (vol. 49, no. 3, May/June 2020)”
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