Jordan Davis (poet)

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Jordan Davis (born 1970 in New York City) is an American poet and poetry editor of The Nation . [1] He is one of the Flarf poets.

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Life

Davis graduated from Columbia College, where he studied with Kenneth Koch [2] and was editor of The Poetry Project Newsletter. [3] In 1998, he founded The Hat, with Christopher Edgar. [4]

His work appeared in Poetry, [5] Boston Review, [6] and 3:AM Magazine. [7]

Books

Co-edited

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References

  1. "Jordan Davis". The Nation. 2010-04-02. Archived from the original on 2018-07-08. Retrieved 2022-02-11.
  2. "About Jordan Davis". Academy of American Poets. Archived from the original on 2013-10-15. Retrieved 2022-02-11.
  3. "Emerging Poet: On Jordan Davis". Academy of American Poets. Archived from the original on 2013-07-26. Retrieved 2022-02-11.
  4. Diggory, Terence (2009). Encyclopedia of the New York School Poets. Infobase Publishing. p. 128. ISBN   9781438119052. Archived from the original on 2022-02-11. Retrieved 2021-09-23.
  5. "Jordan Davis". Poetry Foundation. 2022-02-11. Archived from the original on 2021-05-13. Retrieved 2022-02-11.
  6. "Poet's Sampler: Jordan Davis". Boston Review. Archived from the original on 2022-02-11. Retrieved 2022-02-11.
  7. "3am Poetry - POEMS BY JORDAN DAVIS". www.3ammagazine.com. Archived from the original on 2020-01-14. Retrieved 2022-02-11.
  8. Nichols, Travis. "Free Radicals: American Poets Before Their First Books". Octopus Magazine. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 18 March 2013. Sarah Manguso and Jordan Davis have...gathered together a group of poets who, by the title's implication, are free from the restraints and requirements imposed by what Davis calls "the government of poetry-land," and radical compared to the staid, homogenized poetry cranked out by writers obsessed with the magazine-book-adjunct job-tenured job fast track to Ted Kooser-land.