Jordan Davis (poet)

Jordan Davis (born 1970 in New York City) is an American poet and poetry editor of The Nation.[1] He is one of the Flarf poets.

Life

Davis graduated from Columbia College, where he studied with Kenneth Koch[2] and was editor of The Poetry Project Newsletter.[3] In 1998, he founded The Hat, with Christopher Edgar.[4]

His work appeared in Poetry,[5] Boston Review,[6] and 3:AM Magazine.[7]

Books

  • Million Poems Journal, Faux, 2003, ISBN 9780971037182
  • Shell Game, Edge Books, 2018, ISBN 9781890311452
Co-edited
  • Free Radicals: American Poets Before Their First Books, Subpress, 2004, ISBN 9781930068230[8]
  • The Collected Poems of Kenneth Koch, Knopf, 2005.
  • P.O.D. (Poems On Demand), Greying Ghost. 2011.

References

  1. ^ "Jordan Davis". The Nation. 2010-04-02. Archived from the original on 2018-07-08. Retrieved 2022-02-11.
  2. ^ "About Jordan Davis". Academy of American Poets. Archived from the original on 2013-10-15. Retrieved 2022-02-11.
  3. ^ "Emerging Poet: On Jordan Davis". Academy of American Poets. Archived from the original on 2013-07-26. Retrieved 2022-02-11.
  4. ^ Diggory, Terence (2009). Encyclopedia of the New York School Poets. Infobase Publishing. p. 128. ISBN 9781438119052. Archived from the original on 2022-02-11. Retrieved 2021-09-23.
  5. ^ "Jordan Davis". Poetry Foundation. 2022-02-11. Archived from the original on 2021-05-13. Retrieved 2022-02-11.
  6. ^ "Poet's Sampler: Jordan Davis". Boston Review. Archived from the original on 2022-02-11. Retrieved 2022-02-11.
  7. ^ "3am Poetry - POEMS BY JORDAN DAVIS". www.3ammagazine.com. Archived from the original on 2020-01-14. Retrieved 2022-02-11.
  8. ^ Nichols, Travis. "Free Radicals: American Poets Before Their First Books". Octopus Magazine. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 18 March 2013. Sarah Manguso and Jordan Davis have...gathered together a group of poets who, by the title's implication, are free from the restraints and requirements imposed by what Davis calls "the government of poetry-land," and radical compared to the staid, homogenized poetry cranked out by writers obsessed with the magazine-book-adjunct job-tenured job fast track to Ted Kooser-land.


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