Today's poem is
"What We Died For"
from The South Carolina Review
Todd Davis
is the author of six full-length collections of poetry, most recently Native Species and Winterkill, both published by Michigan State University Press. He edited the nonfiction collection, Fast Break to Line Break: Poets on the Art of Basketball, and co-edited the anthology Making Poems. His writing has won the Midwest Book Award, the Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Prize, the Chautauqua Editors Prize, the Bloomsburg University Book Prize, and the Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Silver and Bronze Awards. He teaches environmental studies, creative writing, and American literature at Pennsylvania State University's Altoona College.
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About The South Carolina Review:
September 12, 2016: "Thieves" "We filch..."
July 16, 2013: "Dona Nobis Pacem" "The moon grows from nothing to a porcelain sliver...."
March 27, 2010: "Obituary" "Third week of March and sugaring is nearly finished...."
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