Poet and professor Todd Davis returns to Eastern Mennonite University for a Sept. 26 Writers Read event. He will read at 6:30 p.m. in Common Grounds Coffeehouse in the University Commons. The event is free; donations will be accepted.
Writers Read is sponsored by the Language and Literature Department and will feature two other authors, Faith Edse, on Oct. 12 at 8 p.m., and Lauren Alleyne, on Feb. 6 at 6:30 p.m.
Davis is a fellow in the Black Earth Institute and teaches environmental studies, creative writing, and American literature at Pennsylvania State University’s Altoona College.
He first participated in Writers Read at EMU in 2010.
Davis is the author of six full-length collections of poetry–Native Species, Winterkill, In the Kingdom of the Ditch, The Least of These, Some Heaven, and Ripe—as well as of a limited edition chapbook, Household of Water, Moon, and Snow. He edited the nonfiction collection, Fast Break to Line Break: Poets on the Art of Basketball, and co-edited Making Poems: Forty Poems with Commentary by the Poets.
His poetry has appeared in Ted Kooser’s syndicated newspaper column American Life in Poetry and has been anthologized in such books as The Autumn House Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry and Bedford/St. Martin’s textbook, Approaching Literature. His poems have won the Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Prize, the Chautauqua Editor’s Prize, the ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Bronze and Silver Awards, and have been nominated several times for the Pushcart Prize.
More than 300 of his poems have appeared in such noted journals and magazines as American Poetry Review, Iowa Review, Ecotone, North American Review, Indiana Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Missouri Review, Poetry Northwest, Sycamore Review, Gettysburg Review, Orion, West Branch, and River Styx.Poetry Daily.