Meet & Greet with returning writer, Christina Davis

Stop by to meet Christina and hear her give a short, informal reading.

Christina Davis is the author of two books of poetry: An Ethic (Nightboat Books), selected by Forrest Gander, and Forth A Raven (Alice James Books), and is currently at work on two collections of poems: “Neighborn” and “The Small Evers.”

In addition to publications, she has recently collaborated with Fulbright composer Jacek Smolinski on a sound-art installation about Walden Pond (premiering in May 2024 in Upsala, Sweden); with sculptor Gabriel Sobin on a piece called “The Intrabody,” which was exhibited at the Dora Maar House, France (2022); and with screenwriter Brad Winters on his film about a fictional poet laureate of the United States (in-process 2024).

This summer, she is hoping to make progress on “The Small Evers” (10 pages of which are about to appear in the limited-edition magazine Luigi, edited by Whit Griffin) and on her poem “O, One,” about September 11th.

Davis’s poems, essays and translations have appeared or are forthcoming in the American Poetry Review, Bomb, Brooklyn Rail, Interim, Jubilat, LIT, New Republic (selected by Cathy Park Hong), Paris Review, Poetry Magazine Spoke (with an introduction by Fanny Howe), and other publications. She is the recipient of the Witter Bynner Fellowship from the Library of Congress (selected by U.S. poet laureate Kay Ryan) and the recipient of numerous awards from Harvard University, including the Dean’s Distinction. She has also received residencies from the Bellagio Center/Rockefeller Foundation, MacDowell Colony, and Yaddo, and The Eliot House.

She currently serves as Curator of Poetry at the Woodberry Poetry Room, Harvard University, and lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.