Davis McCombs

Davis McCombs 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 Ruth Lilly Poetry Foundation, the Kentucky Arts Council, and the National Endowment for the Arts. He is the Director of the Creative Writing Program, University of Arkansas.

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.

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

Books

• Ultima Thule. Yale University Press. 2000. ISBN 978-0-300-08317-0., Finalist, National Book Critics Circle Award
• Dismal Rock. Tupelo Press. 2007. ISBN 978-1-932195-65-1.

External references

• Interview Project #3: Davis McCombs , dislocate blog, November 22, 2006
• Davis McCombs, Mixed Media, KET