{"id":43287,"date":"2019-09-24T10:59:23","date_gmt":"2019-09-24T14:59:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/?p=43287"},"modified":"2019-09-27T13:15:24","modified_gmt":"2019-09-27T17:15:24","slug":"poet-todd-davis-returns-to-emu-for-writers-read","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2019\/poet-todd-davis-returns-to-emu-for-writers-read\/","title":{"rendered":"Poet Todd Davis returns to EMU for Writers Read"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/language-and-literature\/writers-read\/\">Writers Read<\/a> 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.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Davis is a fellow in the Black Earth Institute and teaches environmental studies, creative writing, and American literature at Pennsylvania State University\u2019s Altoona College.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He first participated in Writers Read at EMU in 2010.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Davis is the author of six full-length collections of poetry&#8211;<em>Native Species, Winterkill<\/em>, <em>In the Kingdom of the Ditch<\/em>,<em> The Least of These<\/em>,<em> Some Heaven<\/em>, and<em> Ripe<\/em>\u2014as well as of a limited edition chapbook, <em>Household of Water, Moon, and Snow<\/em>. He edited the nonfiction collection, <em>Fast Break to Line Break: Poets on the Art of Basketball<\/em>, and co-edited <em>Making Poems: Forty Poems with Commentary by the Poets<\/em>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">His poetry has appeared in Ted Kooser&#8217;s syndicated newspaper column <em>American Life in Poetry <\/em>and has been anthologized in such books as <em>The Autumn House Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry<\/em> and Bedford\/St. Martin&#8217;s textbook, <em>Approaching Literature<\/em>. His poems have won the Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Prize, the Chautauqua Editor&#8217;s Prize, the ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Bronze and Silver Awards, and have been nominated several times for the Pushcart Prize.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">More than 300 of his poems have appeared in such noted journals and magazines as <em>American Poetry Review<\/em>,<em> Iowa Review<\/em>, <em>Ecotone<\/em>,<em> North American Review<\/em>,<em> Indiana Review<\/em>, <em>Alaska Quarterly Review<\/em>, <em>Missouri Review<\/em>, <em>Poetry Northwest<\/em>, <em>Sycamore Review<\/em>, <em>Gettysburg Review<\/em>, <em>Orion<\/em>,<em> West Branch<\/em>,<em> <\/em>and <em>River Styx<\/em>.<em>Poetry Daily<\/em>.<br \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poet and professor Todd Davis returns to Eastern Mennonite University for a Sept. 26 Writers Read event. 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