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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.

Other poems by Todd Davis in Verse Daily:
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...."

Books by Todd Davis:

Other poems on the web by Todd Davis:
Three poems
Three poems
"Mother"
Three poems
Two poems
Two poems
"Sleep"

Todd Davis's Website.

About The South Carolina Review:

About The South Carolina Review:

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Poetry Editor: Jillian Weise

Other from The South Carolina Review in Verse Daily:
February 9, 2021:   "At My Grandma's Funeral I Think Only of My Grandfather" by Lisa Summe
April 30, 2020:   "Amnesia" by Liz Bowen
February 9, 2021:   "What We Died For" by Lisa Summe

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