Davis McCombs (born 1969)[1] 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.
![]() | This biography of a living person needs additional citations for verification. (October 2015) |
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.
![]() | This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (April 2015) |
Title | Year | First published | Reprinted/collected |
---|---|---|---|
First hard freeze | 2011 | McCombs, Davis (Summer 2011). "First hard freeze". Indiana Review. 33 (1). | McCombs, Davis (2013). "First hard freeze". In Henderson, Bill (ed.). The Pushcart Prize XXXVII : best of the small presses 2013. Pushcart Press. p. 357. |
Dumpster honey | 2015 | McCombs, Davis (August 3, 2015). "Dumpster honey". The New Yorker. 91 (22): 26. Retrieved 2016-03-21. | |
General | |
---|---|
National libraries |
![]() | This biographical article about an American poet born in the 1960s is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |