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

Jon Davis
Nov 30, 20221 min read
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Babakoto, Ravens, Coyotes
I'd forgotten about this brief essay I wrote for Cynthia Newberry Martin's blog "How We Spend Our Days." https://www.cynthianewberrymarti...

Jon Davis
Sep 8, 20221 min read
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92 Book Contests with Links
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...

Jon Davis
Jul 19, 20222 min read
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Ten Questions for Jon Davis
[With apologies to Poets & Writers.] 1. How long did it take you to write Above the Bejeweled City? Ten years, though I was writing...

Jon Davis
Apr 20, 20223 min read
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Goiter, the Odd Word Game I Played with my Mother that Probably Explains a Lot About my Poetry
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,...

Jon Davis
Mar 6, 20223 min read
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Link to Full Text of Scrimmage of Appetite
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
Jan 22, 20221 min read
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Bookworm Interview with Michael Silverblatt, June 15, 2000
Jon Davis Scrimmage of Appetite (University of Akron Press) Jon Davis is a recent discovery. His poems are beginning to win recognition...

Jon Davis
Aug 10, 20211 min read
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Ode to the Coronavirus
A new poem up at terrain.org

Jon Davis
May 24, 20201 min read
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Dec 26, 20190 min read
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Dec 26, 20190 min read
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Dec 26, 20190 min read
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On the Occasion of Arthur Sze's Sight Lines Being Longlisted for the National Book Award in Poetry
"This shift from critique of explanation to embrace of the inexplicable signaled the deep shift in Arthur’s poetic practice."

Jon Davis
Sep 22, 20194 min read
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Chuck Calabreze on Poetry
"I’m writing for the ages. It’d be good if we had some."

Jon Davis
Sep 7, 20191 min read
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Strategies for Revising Poems
"These days, I think the distinction between composition and revision is a false one. All revision is composition."

Jon Davis
Sep 6, 20194 min read
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Six Provocations
"It’s no good to walk from A to B on the solid earth, one must walk the wire."

Jon Davis
Sep 6, 20192 min read
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Stop Making Sense: A Sensible Proposal
"Language and syntax both impede and make possible an exploration of how we actually engage the world."

Jon Davis
Aug 11, 20193 min read
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