{"id":5527,"date":"2019-09-25T13:00:08","date_gmt":"2019-09-25T17:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/?p=5527"},"modified":"2019-09-25T13:00:08","modified_gmt":"2019-09-25T17:00:08","slug":"convocation-todd-davis-poet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/2019\/09\/25\/convocation-todd-davis-poet\/","title":{"rendered":"Convocation: Todd Davis, poet"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Gather for reflections from poet and professor\u00a0Todd Davis<\/a>\u00a0for\u00a0Wondering about God’s Nature<\/em>\u00a0focusing upon how we might see the sacred in the creation. Professor\u00a0Jerry Holsopple<\/a>\u00a0opens the gathering with a few of his original songs.
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Todd Davis is the author of six full-length collections of poetry\u2014Native Species<\/em>,\u00a0Winterkill<\/em>,\u00a0In the Kingdom of the Ditch<\/em>,\u00a0The Least of These<\/em>,\u00a0Some Heaven<\/em>, and\u00a0Ripe<\/em>\u2014as well as a limited-edition chapbook,\u00a0Household of\u00a0Water, Moon, and Snow<\/em>. He edited the nonfiction collection,\u00a0Fast Break to Line Break: Poets on the Art of Basketball<\/em>, and co-edited the anthology\u00a0Making Poems<\/em>. His writing has won the Foreword\u00a0INDIES Book of the Year Bronze and Silver Awards, the Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Prize, the Chautauqua Editors Prize, and has been nominated several times for the Pushcart Prize. His poems appear in such noted journals and magazines as Alaska Quarterly Review, American Poetry Review, Barrow Street, Gettysburg Review, Iowa Review, Missouri Review, North American Review, Orion, Poetry Northwest, Sycamore Review, West Branch, and Poetry Daily. He teaches environmental studies, creative writing, and American literature at Pennsylvania State University\u2019s Altoona College.<\/p>

Todd Davis will read from his 6th book of poetry Native Species for\u00a0Writers Read<\/a>\u00a0in Common Grounds Coffeehouse tomorrow evening (Sept. 26) from 6:30-8 p.m.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n