ALTOONA, Pa. — Todd Davis, professor of English and environmental studies at Penn State Altoona, is this week's featured poet in “The Missouri Review” for his poem "In the Bed Where I Was Conceived."
Davis is the author of eight full-length collections of poetry, most recently “Ditch Memory: New & Selected Poems” and “Coffin Honey,” both published by Michigan State University Press. He edited the nonfiction collection “Fast Break to Line Break: Poets on the Art of Basketball”and coedited the anthologies “A Literary Field Guide to Northern Appalachia” and “Making Poems: Forty Poems with Commentary by the Poets.”
Davis’ writing has won the Midwest Book Award, the Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Prize, the Chautauqua Editors Prize, the Bloomsburg University Book Prize, and the Foreword INDIES Book of the Year. He is an emeritus fellow of the Black Earth Institute.
Learn more about Davis on his website.