Todd Davis

Career

Davis (born March 29, 1965, in Elkhart, Indiana) is Professor of English and Environmental Studies at Penn State University’s Altoona College. He is the author of five books of poetry, as well as the author or editor of several volumes of literary criticism. Davis is the author of five books of poetry—Ripe (2002), Some Heaven (2007), The Least of These (2010), Household of Water, Moon, and Snow: The Thoreau Poems (2010), and In the Kingdom of the Ditch (2013)—as well as co-editor, with Erin Murphy, of the anthology, Making Poems (2010).

Garrison Keillor has featured Davis’s poems on The Writer’s Almanac, and Ted Kooser has selected his poems to appear in the nationally syndicated American Life in column.

In 1987, Davis earned a Bachelor of Arts from Grace College in Winona Lake, Indiana, and Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy degrees in English from Northern Illinois University in 1991 and 1995, respectively.

Achievements

• The winner of the Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Prize, awarded by the Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature, Davis has published poems in numerous national and international journals and magazines, including Poetry Daily, Verse Daily, The North American Review, The Iowa Review, The Gettysburg Review, Indiana Review, The Christian Science Monitor, Orion, Shenandoah, River Styx, Sou’wester, 5 Department of Administration and Management, Quarterly West, Green Mountains Review, Poetry East, West Branch, Epoch, The Louisville Review, and Image.

Works

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  • In the Kingdom of the Ditch

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  • The Critical Response to John Irving (Critical Responses in Arts and Letters)

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  • The Critical Response to John Irving (Critical Responses in Arts and Letters) by Todd F. Davis (2004-07-30)

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  • Ripe: Poems

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  • The Critical Response to John Irving
  • (In the Kingdom of the Ditch) Author: Todd Davis published on (February, 2014)