Geffrey Davis

Geffrey Davis is the author of three poetry books, most recently One Wild Word Away (BOA Editions, 2024). Davis's second book, Night Angler , received the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets; and his debut, Revising the Storm , received the A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize and was a Hurston/Wright Legacy Award Finalist. His poems have been published by The Atlantic, New England Review, The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, Orion Magazine , Oxford American , PBS NewsHour...See more

Geffrey Davis is the author of three poetry books, most recently One Wild Word Away (BOA Editions, 2024). Davis's second book, Night Angler , received the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets; and his debut, Revising the Storm , received the A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize and was a Hurston/Wright Legacy Award Finalist. His poems have been published by The Atlantic, New England Review, The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, Orion Magazine , Oxford American , PBS NewsHour , Ploughshares , and elsewhere. Davis currently lives in the Ozarks, where he teaches full-time with the Program in Creative Writing & Translation at the University of Arkansas. See less