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Jordan Davis (born 1970 in New York City) is an American poet and poetry editor of The Nation. He is one of the Flarf poets.

Life

Davis graduated from Columbia College, where he studied with Kenneth Koch and was editor of The Poetry Project Newsletter. In 1998, he founded The Hat, with Christopher Edgar.

His work appeared in Poetry, Boston Review, and 3:AM Magazine.

Books

• Million Poems Journal, Faux, 2003, ISBN 9780971037182
• Shell Game, Edge Books, 2018, ISBN 9781890311452

Co-edited

• Free Radicals: American Poets Before Their First Books, Subpress, 2004, ISBN 9781930068230
• The Collected Poems of Kenneth Koch, Knopf, 2005.
• P.O.D. (Poems On Demand), Greying Ghost. 2011.

References

1. "Jordan Davis". The Nation. 2010-04-02. Archived from the original on 2018-07-08. Retrieved 2022-02-11.
2. "About Jordan Davis". Academy of American Poets. Archived from the original on 2013-10-15. Retrieved 2022-02-11.
3. "Emerging Poet: On Jordan Davis". Academy of American Poets. Archived from the original on 2013-07-26. Retrieved 2022-02-11.
4. Diggory, Terence (2009). Encyclopedia of the New York School Poets. Infobase Publishing. p. 128. ISBN 9781438119052. Archived from the original on 2022-02-11. Retrieved 2021-09-23.
5. "Jordan Davis". Poetry Foundation. 2022-02-11. Archived from the original on 2021-05-13. Retrieved 2022-02-11.
6. "Poet's Sampler: Jordan Davis". Boston Review. Archived from the original on 2022-02-11. Retrieved 2022-02-11.
7. "3am Poetry - POEMS BY JORDAN DAVIS". www.3ammagazine.com. Archived from the original on 2020-01-14. Retrieved 2022-02-11.
8. Nichols, Travis. "Free Radicals: American Poets Before Their First Books". Octopus Magazine. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 18 March 2013. Sarah Manguso and Jordan Davis have...gathered together a group of poets who, by the title's implication, are free from the restraints and requirements imposed by what Davis calls "the government of poetry-land," and radical compared to the staid, homogenized poetry cranked out by writers obsessed with the magazine-book-adjunct job-tenured job fast track to Ted Kooser-land.

External links

• Poet's website

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