Todd Davis is the author of eight books of poetry, most recently Ditch Memory: New & Selected Poems and Coffin Honey, both published by Michigan State University Press. He has won the Midwest Book Award, the Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Bronze and Silver Awards, the Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Prize, the Chautauqua Editors Prize, and the Bloomsburg University Book Prize. His poems appear in such journals and magazines as Alaska Quarterly Review, American Poetry Review, Gettysburg Review, Iowa Review, Missouri Review, North American Review, Orion, Southern Humanities Review, Verse Daily, and Poetry Daily. He is an emeritus fellow of the Black Earth Institute and teaches environmental studies and creative writing at Pennsylvania State University's Altoona College.

Other poems by Todd Davis in Verse Daily:
March 10, 2023:   "For a Stray Dog near the Paper Mill in Tyrone, Pennsylvania" "The dog bends her ear to the steel tracks as they begin to hum...."
January 2, 2023:   "April Prayer" "Where snow disappeared a month ago, I trace my fingers..."
May 26, 2022:   "What I Know about the Last Lynching in Jeff Davis County" "How it happened more than fifty years before I was born...."
February 10, 2021:   "What We Died For" "Like the summer fires that blackened the mountain..."
September 12, 2016:   "Thieves" "We filch..."
July 16, 2013:   "Dona Nobis Pacem" "The moon grows from nothing to a porcelain sliver...."
March 27, 2010:   "Obituary" "Third week of March and sugaring is nearly finished...."

Other poems on the web by Todd Davis:
Two poems
"Wayfaring"
Three poems
Three poems
"Mother"
Three poems
Two poems
Two poems
"Sleep"

Todd Davis's Website.

About Ditch Memory:

"To read a new and selected collection is to experience the evolution of a voice, in this case an essential voice in American poetry. To sit with the whole of these transportive, immersive poems is to awaken like a wild riparian corridor in spring. Wildflowers on the banks. Birdsong in the branches. The reader's heart is a bud: open. Beautiful work."
—Chris Dombrowski