Department of English

Tupelo Press website, author page: https://www.tupelopress.org/psalm.shtml

Crazyhorse website: http://crazyhorse.cofc.edu/

Profile
Carol Ann Davis holds an M.F.A. in Poetry Writing from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She taught at Randolph-Macon Woman's College, Stonehill College, and Endicott College before moving to Charleston in 2000 to begin teaching at The College of Charleston. She teaches courses in poetry writing at all levels and in literary publishing, with occasional forays into the teaching of contemporary poetry. She edits the literary journal Crazyhorse and directs the creative writing concentration within the English major. Her first book of poems, Psalm, appeared from from Tupelo Press in 2007, a year in which she was also awarded and Literature Fellowship in Poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Recent Publications, Presentations, Conferences, and Readings

Readings at Poets House, New York City; the Library of Congress, Washington, DC; the Atlantic Center for the Arts, Florida; Ypsilanti Theater, Prague, Czech Republic

"Grief Daybook: Evans' Gulf of Mexico," and "Grief Daybook: A Love Supreme." Image 54 (Summer 2007) 92-94.

"Small Boy," "Django," and "What the Poem Wants." Prairie Schooner 81:1 (Spring 2007) 233-236.

"Out of Sixteen Portraits, One Turns To Look," and "Melospiza Melodia." The Iowa Review 37:1 (Spring 2007)

"Poem Composed by Chance in Front of Rothko?s No. 3." The Threepenny Review 106 (Summer 2006): 15.