Davis McCombs (born 1969) is an American poet. He attended Harvard University as an undergraduate, the University of Virginia as a Henry Hoyns Fellow, and Stanford University as a Wallace Stegner Fellow. He is also the recipient of fellowships from the Poetry Foundation, the Kentucky Arts Council, the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation. He is the Director of the Program in Creative Writing and Translation at the University of Arkansas. He has published three collections of poetry: Ultima Thule (Yale University Press, 2000); Dismal Rock (Tupelo Press, 2007); and Lore (University of Utah Press, 2016).
McCombs' work appeared in The Best American Poetry 1996, The Missouri Review, Poetry, The Kenyon Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, Hayden's Ferry Review, and other magazines and journals.
McCombs grew up in Munfordville, Kentucky. From 1991 to 2001, he worked as a Park Ranger at Mammoth Cave National Park. He is married to the poet and photographer Carolyn Guinzio.
Awards 2005 Larry Levis Editor's Prize by The Missouri Review for a sixteen-part sequence of poems called "Tobacco Mosaic" 2005 Vachel Lindsay Poetry Award from Willow Springs for his poem "Rossetti in 1869" 2005 Joy Bale Boone award from Wind magazine's for a poem called "Noodling." 2005 Dorset Prize, chosen by Linda Gregerson 2015 Porter Prize
Bibliography Poetry collections Finalist, National Book Critics Circle Award
List of poems TitleYearFirst publishedReprinted/collectedFirst hard freeze2011 Dumpster honey2015
References
External links Interview Project #3: Davis McCombs , dislocate blog, November 22, 2006 Davis McCombs, Mixed Media, KET