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