Jon Davis

Jon Davis is the author of six full-length collections of poetry: An Amiable Reception for the Acrobat (Grid Books, forthcoming, 2019), Improbable Creatures (Grid Books, 2017), Heteronymy: An Anthology (La Nana Creek Press, 2015), Preliminary Report (Copper Canyon Press, 2010), Scrimmage of Appetite, University of Akron Press, 1995), and Dangerous Amusements (Ontario Review Press, 1987). He is also the author of five limited-edition chapbooks, including Thelonious Sphere (Q Ave. Press, 2014) and Loving Horses (Palace Press, 2014).  Two new collections of poems, The Many-Body Problem and How Is This Fun: The Poems of Chuck Calabreze, and a collection of short fiction, Postcards of the Hanging, are complete. Dayplaces, which Davis translated from the Arabic with the author, Iraqi poet Naseer Hassan, was published by Tebot Bach Press in 2017.  Davis is currently co-translating an expanded version of Dayplaces. Davis’s short stories have appeared in recent issues of The Stockholm Review, Monkeybicycle, Flash, Versal, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, failbetter, and the anthologies Flash Fiction Funny and Flashing for Comic Relief. For three years he taught screenwriting for the ABC/Disney Summer Film & Television Workshops at IAIA. Short films made from his screenplays have played in festivals across North America. He has received a Lannan Literary Award, the Lavan Prize, the Off the Grid Poetry Prize, a Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center Fellowship, and two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships. He taught for 23 years at the Institute of American Indian Arts before founding, in 2013, the IAIA low residency MFA in Creative Writing. He retired as director of that program in 2018.

Sometimes, he shows up as this guy, Chuck Calabreze. Nobody knows why.

LINKS TO WORK ONLINE:


POEMS:

Projector:
http://www.projectormagazine.com/issuesix/6.php

Middle School Poetry 180:
http://middleschoolpoetry180.wordpress.com/2013/09/05/195-preliminary-report-from-the-committee-on-appropriate-postures-for-the-suffering-jon-davis/

Paul H. Sutherland Blog:
http://www.paulhsutherland.com/archives/126

poets.org:
http://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/jon-davis

The Prose Poem:
http://webdelsol.com/tpp/tpp5/tpp5_davis.html

Narrative:
http://www.narrativemagazine.com/issues/spring-2009/four-poems

Narrative:
http://www.narrativemagazine.com/issues/poems-week-2010%E2%80%932011/modern-form

Terrain.org:
http://terrain.org/2014/poetry/three-poems-by-jon-davis/

Verse:
http://versemag.blogspot.com/2012/11/new-poem-by-jon-davis.html

Taos Journal of Poetry & Art:
http://www.taosjournalofpoetry.com/beauty

Montana Public Radio:
http://mtpr.org/tags/jon-davis

Poetry Magazine:
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/browse/146/2#!/20600297

Poetry Magazine:
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/browse/151/4#!/20601481

Poetry Magazine:
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/browse/151/5#!/20601531

Snow Poems:
http://snowpoemsproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/snowpoems-MAP-FINALREVISED.pdf

Diagram:
http://thediagram.com/14_5/davis.html

Oregon Literary Review:
http://orelitrev.startlogic.com/v2n2/OLR-davis.htm

Poetry Commons:
http://network.bepress.com/explore/arts-and-humanities/creative-writing/poetry/?q=Jon+Davis

Verse Daily:
http://www.versedaily.org/2012/novelist.shtml

Platte Valley Review:
http://www.plattevalleyreview.org/Webpages/Author%20Pages/A-K/Davis.html

Project Muse (Minnesota Review):
http://muse.jhu.edu/login?auth=0&type=summary&url=/journals/minnesota_review/v024/24.davis.pdf

Poefrika:
http://poefrika.blogspot.com/search/label/jon%20davis

TRANSLATIONS:

Waxwing (Interview on Translating):
http://waxwingmag.org/writing.php?item=124

Waxwing (translations):
http://waxwingmag.org/archive/03/writing.php?item=123

Poetry at Sangam:
http://poetry.sangamhouse.org/2014/09/dayplaces-by-naseer-hassan-translated-by-naseer-hassan-jon-davis/

Taos Journal of Poetry & Art (translations):
http://www.taosjournalofpoetry.com/three-rainy-nights-from-the-thousand-nights/

Diode (Translations):
http://www.diodepoetry.com/v7n3/content/hassan_davis.html

SHORT STORIES:

McSweeney's Internet Tendency:
http://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/compare-and-contrast-chris-isaak-and-van-morrison

failbetter:
http://failbetter.com/54/DavisAbigail.php?sxnSrc=ltst

Foliate Oak
http://www.foliateoak.com/jon-davis.html

CHUCK:

Stockholm Review:
http://thestockholmreview.org/the-soderberg-section/the-presidents-tour-of-vermont-by-chuck-calabreze/

Exquisite Corpse:
http://www.corpse.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=196&Itemid=61

Platte Valley Review (Chuck Calabreze):
http://www.plattevalleyreview.org/Webpages/Author%20Pages/A-K/Calabreze.html

Slope (Jon Davis pretending to be Chuck Calabreze):
http://www.slope.org/LFB/LEFT%20FACING%20BIRD_files/JON%20DAVIS,%20four%20poems.pdf

Chuck Reads for Poetry Matters:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fio0OR1rpFY

Chuck reads Renga:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EaENLzhYxbw

Chuck's YouTube Channel:
https://www.youtube.com/user/ChuckCalabreze

Future Earth Magazine, Chuck growls "Narcotraficantes"
http://futureearthmagazine.com/Narcotraficantes%20mp3

Chuck sings "Paseo":
http://www.mp3s.xyz/download/121933034/paseo.html

READINGS:

Reading at Eastern Oregon:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOSXHc3Siqo

Somos Summer Writer Series (reading):
http://www.culturalenergy.org/somos.htm

Poetry Matters:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2M5_5OM88CA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZxSDXIGavw

ARTICLES ON & REVIEWS OF JON DAVIS'S WORK:

David Foster Wallace's Infamous Review of The Best of the Prose Poem:
https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=Jon+Davis+poems&start=50

David Foster Wallace: The Ad
http://www.cforster.com/2010/06/when-david-foster-wallace/

Pam Houston on Preliminary Report:
http://www.thenervousbreakdown.com/phouston/2012/03/pam-houston-the-tnb-self-interview/

Review of Scrimmage of Appetite in The Prose Poem:
http://digitalcommons.providence.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1529&context=prosepoem

Santa Fe New Mexican:
http://www.santafenewmexican.com/pasatiempo/poetry_issue/jon-davis-embrace-the-hmmmm/article_5fe1268f-83a3-5270-aa88-acfa0c10d0d8.html

IAIA Chronicle (profile):
http://iaiachronicle.com/2011/09/cruising-with-jon-davis/

Pam Houston on Writers Read:
http://whatarewritersreading.blogspot.com/2012/02/pam-houston.html

Review of Two Lines in the Los Angeles Review of Books:
https://lareviewofbooks.org/review/country-kind-song-landmarks-dayplaces-world-literature

Jane Lin in the Los Alamos Daily Post:
http://www.ladailypost.com/content/poetry-reading-primer-tonights-authors-speak-event

The Spoon River Poetry Review (review of an anthology I don't appear in):
http://srpr.org/files/39.1/39.1-review-essay-excerpt.pdf

Michael J. Wilson in Coldfront:
http://coldfrontmag.com/santa-fe-jon-davis-reading-52313/

REVIEWS & ESSAYS BY JON DAVIS:

11 Essays from The Yawp Barbaric:
http://www.sfreporter.com/santafe/by-author-508-1.html

Boston Review:
http://bostonreview.net/archives/BR22.3/Glazner.html

At Length (Essay):
http://atlengthmag.com/poetry/short-takes-on-long-poems-volume-2/#davis

Tribal College Journal:
http://www.tribalcollegejournal.org/archives/26942

INTERVIEWS:

How a Poem Happens:
http://howapoemhappens.blogspot.com/2014/09/jon-davis.html

Big Bang Poetry:
http://www.bigbangpoetry.com/2013/05/interview-with-poet-jon-davis.html

Marfa Public Radio Interview:
http://marfapublicradio.org/blog/talk-at-ten/jon-davis/

Bookworm Interview:
http://www.kcrw.com/news-culture/shows/bookworm/jon-davis

Corazon Bilingue (Interview):
http://corazonbilingue.com/images/10.08.08,_Jon_Davis.mp3

BOOKS & ANTHOLOGIES:

Preliminary Report at Copper Canyon:
https://www.coppercanyonpress.org/pages/browse/book.asp?bg=%7B534894D1-9ABF-4CCA-9CCA-2CFC5FC17AB3%7D

Preliminary Report on iTunes:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/preliminary-report/id471877876?mt=11

99 Poems for the 99 Percent:
http://99thepress.com/99-poems-for-the-99-percent/

No Boundaries (Anthology):
http://www.tupelopress.org/books/nobound

Snow Poems Postcard Book:
http://sfaiblog.org/2014/02/11/snow-poems-postcard-book/

Axle Contemporary: The Renga Project
http://rengaproject.blogspot.com/

Two Lines Press (translations):
http://twolinespress.com/two-lines-20-table-of-contents/

Flash Fiction Funny:
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/flash-fiction-funny-tom-hazuka/1116960327?cm_mmc=google+product+search-_-q000000633-_-9781595408822pla-_-book_15to24-_-q000000633-_-9781595408822&ean=9781595408822&isbn=9781595408822&kpid=9781595408822&r=1

The Renga Project:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSQtpgio1Jc
http://www.axleart.com/#!books/c1552

Mas Tequila Review:
http://www.amazon.com/The-Mas-Tequila-Review-Poetry/dp/1500646830

Writers Festival at the Institute of American Indian Arts, July 19-25

We'll be yawping over at the Institute of American Indian Arts this coming week. Scroll down or go to www.iaia.edu for the full schedule. Here's a glimpse of four of the writers who will be reading, but it's just a glimpse of a much larger scene: http://www.sfreporter.com/santafe/article-8932-dramatic-setting.html

99 Poems for the 99 Percent Reading on July 26

Anthology editor Dean Rader, Dana Levin, and I will read from 99 Poems for the 99 Percent at 4 pm on Saturday, July 26, in the O'Shaughnessy Performance Space at the Santa Fe University of Art & Design (follow the signs to Benildus Hall). The reading is free, of course!

American poetry has a rich tradition of taking on important political and social events. The 99 poems in this diverse and dynamic new collection demonstrate how engagement with what Wallace Stevens called “the actual world” does not diminish poetry’s punch—rather it makes it hit harder. Born out of a popular blog begun by Dean Rader at the height of the recession and at the infancy of the Occupy movements, 99 Poems for the 99 Percent shows that the aims of poetry and the aims of democracy are hand-in-hand. These are poems of anger, love, protest, humor, contemplation, hope, frustration, and beauty. These are poems by the famous and the marginal, by the heard and the ignored. These are poems that speak to the past as well as the future. These are poems of and for the real America.

The anthology features poems by well-known writers like Edward Hirsch, Bob Hicok, Robert Pinsky, Dana Levin, LeAnne Howe, Timothy Donnelly, Camille T. Dungy, Jon Davis, Brian Clements, Ellen Bass, Joan Houlihan, Ray Gonzalez, and Heid Erdrich as well as a generous sampling of work by beginning poets and students.

http://99thepress.com/

http://www.deanrader.com/about.html

http://99poemsfor99percent.blogspot.com/

Reading at St. John's Thursday, July 17

The Institute of American Indian Arts' Writers Festival is Here!

City of Santa Fe Poet Laureate Jon Davis to Host Poetry Reading at the Institute of American Indian Arts on Sunday, June 29, 2014, at 3:00 pm

Poster by Tom Leech & James Bourland, The Press at the Palace of the Governors

SANTA FE, NM — On Sunday, June 29, 2014, from 3:00 to 4:30 p.m., City of Santa Fe Poet Laureate Jon Davis will host “Santa Fe Poets 6,” the sixth and last of six group readings. Each reading has featured a different group of five poets reading with the poet laureate. The June reading will take place in the Institute of American Indian Arts’ Lloyd Kiva New Welcome Center. The event is free.

At this reading, Davis will read new work and work from his most recent published book, Preliminary Report, published by Copper Canyon Press in 2010. In addition to being Santa Fe’s fourth poet laureate, Davis is Director of the Low Residency MFA Program at the Institute of American Indian Arts, where he has taught for 24 years.

The other poets reading in Santa Fe Poets 6:

Britta Andersson received her BFA from the Institute of American Indian Arts and her MFA from New York University. Her poems have appeared in the International Poetry Review, Oregon Literary Review, and Salt Hill.

Amy Beeder is the author of Burn the Field and Now Make An Altar (Carnegie Mellon, 2012). Her work has appeared in Poetry, Ploughshares, The Nation, The Kenyon Review, The Southern Review, AGNI, and other journals. She has taught poetry at the University of New Mexico and Taos Summer Writers Conference. She has received the “Discovery”/The Nation Award, a Bread Loaf Scholarship, a Witness Emerging Writers Award, and a James Merrill Residency. She has worked as a freelance reporter, a political asylum specialist, a high-school teacher in West Africa, and an election and human rights observer in Haiti and Suriname.

Hakim Bellamy is the author of Swear (West End Press, 2013). He became the inaugural poet laureate of Albuquerque in 2012. He has been on two national champion poetry slam teams, won collegiate and city poetry slam championships (in Albuquerque and Silver City, NM), and has been published in numerous anthologies and on inner-city buses. A musician, actor, journalist, playwright and community organizer, Bellamy has also received an honorable mention for the Paul Bartlett Ré Peace Prize at the University of New Mexico.

Donald Levering was the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship  in poetry and winner of the Quest for Peace Writing Contest in rhetoric. He was also an Academy of American Poets’ Featured Poet in the Online Forum.  Recent collections include The Number of Names, Sweeping the Skylight, and Algonquins Planted Salmon. His latest book is The Water Leveling With Us (Red Mountain Press, 2014). He lives in Santa Fe with the artist Jane Shoenfeld.

Luci Tapahonso is the Navajo Nation’s first Poet Laureate. She has taught at the University of Kansas, the University of Arizona, and ast the University of New Mexico. She is the author of five books of poetry and stories, and one children’s book. In 1999, she was named Storyteller of the Year by the Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers, a year after being recognized with the Regional Book Award from the Mountains & Plains Booksellers Association.

The Institute of American Indian Arts’ Lloyd Kiva New Welcome Center is located at 83 Avan Nu Po Road in Santa Fe, New Mexico. For more information, call Jon Davis at 424.2365 or e-mail him at jdavissimo52@gmail.com.

Established in 2005, the Poet Laureate program actively promotes poetry and the spoken word as integral parts of our civic life.

"The Poetry of Light": A Writing Workshop

Sunday, June 1, 1-4 pm, New Mexico History Museum 

Join Santa Fe Poet Laureate Jon Davis for a writing workshop based on Poetics of Light: Pinhole Photography. Open to high schoolers and older, the session brings participants into the Herzstein Gallery to study pinhole photographs and inhabit them imaginatively. Let language carry you toward and away from the images. Draft poems that engage what’s in front of you—and explore what is only suggested by these often mysterious photographs. Free. Make a reservation by calling 505-476-5096.