Here's a very long lecture about revising a poem into being. https://soundcloud.com/jdavissimo/the-new-americans-revision-as-composition

I'd forgotten about this brief essay I wrote for Cynthia Newberry Martin's blog "How We Spend Our Days." https://www.cynthianewberrymarti...

I've been assembling a list of book contests for my Zoom students, a mixture of first book, open contests, and open reading periods. I...

[With apologies to Poets & Writers.] 1. How long did it take you to write Above the Bejeweled City? Ten years, though I was writing...

I don’t know how this game started or when exactly, though I was probably around ten years old. I’m guessing it started spontaneously,...

Every once in a while, I get a query about Scrimmage of Appetite, my second book, published by the University of Akron Press back in...

Jon Davis Scrimmage of Appetite (University of Akron Press) Jon Davis is a recent discovery. His poems are beginning to win recognition...

A new poem up at terrain.org

"This shift from critique of explanation to embrace of the inexplicable signaled the deep shift in Arthur’s poetic practice."

"I’m writing for the ages. It’d be good if we had some."

"These days, I think the distinction between composition and revision is a false one. All revision is composition."

"It’s no good to walk from A to B on the solid earth, one must walk the wire."

"Language and syntax both impede and make possible an exploration of how we actually engage the world."