David Moolten
David Moolten's most recent book, Primitive Mood, received the T. S. Eliot Prize for poetry from Truman State University. He is a physician specializing in transfusion medicine and lives in Philadelphia.
Reading List
Dove
For JR One can leap from a pulpit in a suit of feathers or march on Washington. Only a maniac gives his life without dying if you count each war stopped, all the years of perseverating you didn’t believe in …
Little Red Riding Hood
The grandmother smiled like sleep in the way jaws sag and rooms smell like the past. But her familiar face merely embellished a nightie worn by death itself, which mistook you for why you came like a forest whatever’s in …
Gretel Released Unharmed
Click to hear David Moolten read his poem, “Gretel Released Unharmed” Holding a knife, the old woman looks out On dark familiar country through the window Which frames her like an oven’s lit square. Trees swallow the girl whole. Her …