The Kellogg Writers Series Presents
Poet
Todd Davis
Reading
February 20, 2008
Wednesday
7:30 p.m.
Esch Studio Theatre |
The Kellogg Writers Series Presents Poet Todd Davis Reading February 20, 2008 Wednesday 7:30 p.m. Esch Studio Theatre |
Todd Davis teaches creative writing, environmental studies, and American literature at Penn State University’s Altoona College. His poems have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, have won the Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Prize, and have appeared or are forthcoming in such journals and magazines as The North American Review, The Iowa Review, West Branch, River Styx, Arts & Letters, Indiana Review, Quarterly West, Green Mountains Review, Poetry East, and Image. He is the author of two books of poems, Ripe (Bottom Dog Press, 2002) and Some Heaven (Michigan State University Press, 2007). Poems from Some Heaven have been featured on Garrison Keillor’s The Writer’s Almanac and in Ted Kooser’s American Life in Poetry. --Jim Harrison, author of The Shape of the Journey: New and Collected Poems and The Woman Lit by Fireflies"Some Heaven is a considerable book of poems. Many poets feel that they know the natural world, but Todd Davis has absorbed this world fully into his heart and mind. He is a fine, rare poet." --Dan Gerber, author of Trying to Catch the Horses and A Last Bridge Home Some Heaven is a book rich in compassion and tenderness. The poems, through which Todd Davis limns the life and growth of his family, have a quietly penetrating power that can take the reader by surprise and delight and make him, or her, all the better for the experience. They open clear windows into the natural world and irresistibly draw us through them. |