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Today's poem is "Unfledged"

from New Madrid

Geffrey Davis won the 2013 A. Poulin Jr. Poetry Prize for his debut collection Revising the Storm, forthcoming in 2014 from BOA Editions, Ltd. A Cave Canem Fellow, he received the Wabash Prize for Poetry in 2013, and the Leonard Steinberg Memorial/Academy of American Poets Prize in 2012. His poems are forthcoming or have appeared in Basalt, Crazyhorse, Mid-American Review, Mississippi Review, Sycamore Review, and Wisconsin Review. He holds an MFA from Penn State University, where he’s currently writing a doctoral dissertation on American poetics.

Other poems by Geffrey Davis in Verse Daily:
May 23, 2014:   "King Country Metro" "In Seattle, in 1982, my mother beholds this man..."
November 30, 2008:   "Winter Sea" "You wake up to the deepening light through the window..."

Books by Geffrey Davis:

Other poems on the web by Geffrey Davis:
"The Newakum River"
Two poems

Geffrey Davis's Website.

Geffrey Davis on Twitter.

About New Madrid:

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New Madrid * Department of English and Philosophy * Murray State University * 7C Faculty Hall * Murray KY 42071-3341
Editor: Ann Neelon
Other poems by New Madrid in Verse Daily:
May 23, 2014:   "King Country Metro" by Geffrey Davis
December 20, 2012:   "Albert the Pig Speaks" by Adam Day
December 11, 2012:   "Mother's Hair" by Adam Day
February 12, 2012:   "Ode to Ink" by Lee Upton
August 30, 2010:   "The Incredible Shrinking Fool" by William Trowbridge
March 14, 2010:   "The Leisure Class" by Robert Avery
February 4, 2010:   "Because the Body is Made of Water" by Ephraim Scott Sommers
February 27, 2009:   "Intelligent Design" by Richard Cecil
September 24, 2008:   "My Lives" by Al Maginnes

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