American poet (born 1969)
Davis McCombs (born 1969)[ 1] Harvard University as an undergraduate, the University of Virginia as a Henry Hoyns Fellow, and Stanford University as a Wallace Stegner Fellow. He is also the recipient of fellowships from the Poetry Foundation , the Kentucky Arts Council , and the National Endowment for the Arts . He is the Director of the Creative Writing Program at the University of Arkansas .
McCombs' work appeared in The Best American Poetry 1996 The Missouri Review Poetry , The Kenyon Review Virginia Quarterly Review Hayden's Ferry Review
McCombs grew up in Munfordville , Kentucky . From 1991 to 2001, he worked as a Park Ranger at Mammoth Cave National Park . He is married to the poet and photographer Carolyn Guinzio .
Awards
2005 Larry Levis Editor's Prize by The Missouri Review for a sixteen-part sequence of poems called "Tobacco Mosaic"
2005 Vachel Lindsay Poetry Award from Willow Springs for his poem "Rossetti in 1869"
2005 Joy Bale Boone award from Wind magazine's for a poem called "Noodling."
2005 Dorset Prize, chosen by Linda Gregerson
2015 Porter Prize
Bibliography
Poetry collections
List of poems
Title
Year
First published
Reprinted/collected
First hard freeze
2011
McCombs, Davis (Summer 2011). "First hard freeze". Indiana Review . 33 (1). McCombs, Davis (2013). "First hard freeze". In Henderson, Bill (ed.). The Pushcart Prize XXXVII : best of the small presses 2013 . Pushcart Press. p. 357.
Dumpster honey
2015
McCombs, Davis (August 3, 2015). "Dumpster honey" . The New Yorker . Retrieved 2016-03-21 .
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