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Spring 2014 • Vol. XXXVI No. 2 Poetry |

Busy Their Hands

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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.

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