Garrick Davis
Garrick Davis is an American poet and critic. He was born in Los Angeles, California in 1971.
Career
He is the founding editor of the Contemporary Poetry Review, the largest online archive of poetry criticism in the English-speaking world. The CPR was founded in 1998, and was one of the earliest literary reviews in the United States to be published exclusively on the Internet. Regular contributors to the review have included a number of distinguished American poet-critics including Ernest Hilbert, David Yezzi, Adam Kirsch, Dillon Tracy, Bill Coyle, and Joan Houlihan. Its regular foreign contributors include the Irish poet-critics Justin Quinn and David Wheatley, and the Indian critic Rabindra Swain.
His criticism appears regularly in the Contemporary Poetry Review. His work has also been published in the New Criterion and the Weekly Standard.
His poetry has appeared in a number of literary magazines including Verse, McSweeney’s, the Alabama Literary Review, and the New York Sun.
He served as the literary specialist of the National Endowment for the Arts in Washington, D.C. from 2005-2008. He continues to serve as a specialist responsible for the NEA’s Arts Journalism program.
Books
Poetry
Terminal Diagrams (Ohio University Press/Swallow, 2010)
Anthologies
Child of the Ocmulgee: The Selected Poems of Freda Quenneville. Edited by Garrick Davis (Michigan State University Press, 2002)
Praising It New: The Best of the New Criticism. Edited by Garrick Davis (Ohio University Press, 2008)
External Links
Articles
Remembering the Criterion New Criterion. Feb. 2007.
The Will to Innocence New Criterion. Feb. 2008.
Poems
For Harry Crosby Cortland Review. Summer 2006.
While Reading the Revelation of St. John the Divine, I Turn on the Television The Potomac Review. Feb. 2007.
Night High Above the Los Angeles Basin Drunken Boat. March 2009.
Translations
Arnaut Daniel: “The Firm Desire” McSweeney’s. Dec. 2004.
Reviews of His Books
What We Owe the New Critics by Mark Bauerlein The Chronicle of Higher Education. Dec. 2007.
Forward into the Past: Reading the New Critics by William Logan Virginia Quarterly Review. Summer 2008.
Harvesting the Wasteland by Adam Kirsch New York Sun. August 13, 2008.
Grammars of a Possible World by David Yezzi The New Criterion. April 2008.
When Lit-Crit Mattered by James Seaton Wall Street Journal. August 2, 2008.