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Today's poem is "April Prayer"

from The Greensboro Review

Todd Davis is the author of seven books of poetry, most recently Coffin Honey and Native Species, both published by Michigan State University Press. He has won the Midwest Book Award, the Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Bronze and Silver Awards, the Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Prize, the Chautauqua Editors Prize, and the Bloomsburg University Book Prize. His poems appear in such journals and magazines as Alaska Quarterly Review, American Poetry Review, Gettysburg Review, Iowa Review, Missouri Review, North American Review, Orion, Southern Humanities Review, and Western Humanities Review. He teaches environmental studies at Pennsylvania State University’s Altoona College.

Other poems by Todd Davis in Verse Daily:
May 26, 2022:   "What I Know about the Last Lynching in Jeff Davis County" "How it happened more than fifty years before I was born...."
February 10, 2021:   "What We Died For" "Like the summer fires that blackened the mountain..."
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:
"Wayfaring"
Three poems
Three poems
"Mother"
Three poems
Two poems
Two poems
"Sleep"

Todd Davis's Website.

About The Greensboro Review:

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February 2, 2022:   "Going Through the Motions" by Grant Clauser
February 1, 2022:   "Directions" by Paul Guest
January 31, 2022:   "Brayer" by Dan Albergotti
January 30, 2021:   "Coffin Bell" by Andrew Bode-Lang
January 28, 2021:   "Voicemail From My Mother" by Robert Lynn
January 27, 2021:   "Auld Lang Syne" by David Starkey
January 26, 2021:   "Calan Gaeaf" by John A. Nieves
May 16, 2020:   "Sertraline" by Emily Nason
May 15, 2020:   "Crocuses" by David Roderick
December 3, 2019:   "No One Can Tell the Bones of the Dead from the Bones of the Living" by Chelsea Dingman
December 2, 2019:   "A Sort of Art" by Dan Albergotti
December 1, 2019:   "On Seeing a Bee Drink His Nectar" by Wesley Sexton
December 8, 2014:   "Rule 30" by Ryan Vine
November 10, 2013:   "Lullaby with Bourbon" by George David Clark
June 8, 2012:   "Winter and Spring" by Randolph Thomas
March 15, 2012:   "Places that have become me" by Bob Hicok
June 11, 2010:   "Monster-Life" by Nathan Anderson
June 24, 2009:   "Resurrection Fern" by Sara Johnson
June 21, 2009:   "The Child and the Parent" by Ted Kooser
June 20, 2009:   "The Fugitive Kind" by Austin Hummell
January 18, 2009:   "Ovid in Exile" by John Hart
January 17, 2009:   "Possum Nocturne" by Doug Ramspeck
October 13, 2008:   "Over a Ballpoint" by Allan Peterson
May 15, 2008:   "A wedding night" by Randolph Thomas
May 14, 2008:   "Lost in the Heart of the Concert" by Pattiann Rogers
February 28, 2008:   "Fold, Fold" by Mary Crow
February 25, 2008:   "Anubis" by Alan Shapiro
September 19, 2007:   "Elemental: Nitrogen" by Suzanne Heyd
May 18, 2007:   "Autumn Again" by Michael Pettit
December 16, 2006:   "Sky: An Inquiry" by Leslie Ullman
April 12, 2005:  "Cardinal Virtue" by Nicky Beer
September 7, 2004:  "Tantalus" by Robert B. Shaw
March 28, 2004:  "Moving the Moon" by Deborah Bogen
September 22, 2003:  "Aubade" by Richard Foerster
September 20, 2003:  "Goodwill" by Elizabeth McLagan

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