Carol Ann Davis is the recipient of an NEA Fellowship in Poetry; her poetry collections are Psalm (2007) and Atlas Hour (2011). Recent work is forthcoming in Volt, American Poetry Review, and Image. This summer, after editing Crazyhorse for over a decade and directing the undergraduate program in creative writing at the College of Charleston for a number of years, she joined the faculty of Fairfield University and began teaching in their MFA Program.
Poetry
Spring 2014
Busy Their Hands
How bright our misfortunes how glimmering with frost in their infancy they shivered in new air stunned by the outlines of their own hands in black space how fuzzily they […]
Poetry
Summer 2010
October Parting
you’re a good one for that you saidalready holding the railing after I promisedI’d write you letters later she’ll comeafter I’ve gone the one who into afternoon airhas you reading poems aloud three times a […]
Poetry
Summer 2010
In the Making of the Boat
First the planing of the block, the fiberglass dust on the hands, the boring of the hole for the mast they said and then you asked what is a mast […]
Poetry
Summer 2010
Inside “Our Lady of Sorrows” (Votive Panel, before 1371)
For sorrows visited, sorrows taken away. For the first and last and the middle. For the child who never reaches for the ball, pursed lips and small fingers. The long […]
Fall 2012
September 7, 2001; To Ottla on the Subject of Our Ablation
September 7, 2001
By then what had we already
given away? What was still ours?
Be realistic—at this hour ten years ago
you were still alive, but barely:
Carol Ann Davis
Carol Ann Davis’s first collection, Psalm, appeared from Tupelo Press in 2007, the same year she was awarded a fellowship in poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts. Recent […]