Jon Davis (poet)

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Jon Davis
Born1952 (age 6869)
New Haven, Connecticut, U.S.
NationalityAmerican
Alma mater University of Montana
GenrePoetry

Jon Davis (born 1952) is an American poet.

Biography

Davis was born in New Haven, Connecticut, and received a B.A. in English and an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from the University of Montana, where he was editor of the literary journal, CutBank. He has served as Writing Program Coordinator for the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, edited the literary journals Shankpainter and Countermeasures: A Magazine of Poetry & Ideas, and taught at the University of Montana, College of Santa Fe (now Santa Fe University of Art and Design), and Salisbury State University. He is currently a professor at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico. [1]

Contents

Jon Davis is the author of five chapbooks and six full-length collections of poetry. He has received numerous awards for his poetry, including a Lannan Literary Award, two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, and the Lavan Younger Poets Award from the Academy of American Poets. [2]

He wrote the screenplay for the short film The Burden Carriers, which was screened at ImagineNative Film Festival in Toronto and at the Santa Fe Film Festival, and for The Hand Drum, a National Geographic All Roads Festival selection. [3]

Works

Critical assessment

Jon Davis received effusive praise from David Foster Wallace in an otherwise scathing criticism of prose poetry. Wallace commented "a poet whom this reviewer'd never heard of before but whose pieces in this anthology are so off-the-charts terrific that the reviewer has actually gone out and bought the one Jon Davis book mentioned in his bio-note and may very well decide to try to advertise it in this magazine, at reviewer's own expense if necessary—that's how good this guy is." [4]

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References

  1. http://www.iaia.edu/college/_1jondavis.php
  2. "Jon Davis". Copper Canyon Press. Retrieved 2010-06-29.
  3. Jon Davis at Poet & Writers.
  4. Wallace, David Foster. "Both Flesh and Not." Little, Brown and Company (2012), ISBN   9780316182379.