From the Directory of Writers

Jon Davis

Poet
Santa Fe, NM

Jon Davis is the author of six collections of poetry, including Preliminary Report (Copper Canyon, 2010) and Scrimmage of Appetite (University of Akron, 1995). He has received numerous awards for his poetry, including a Lannan Literary Award, two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, and the Lavan Younger Poets Award from the Academy of American Poets. For the past twenty years, he has been professor of creative writing at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe. He wrote the screenplay for the short film “The Burden Carriers,” which was screened at ImagineNative Film Festival in Toronto and at the Santa Fe Film Festival, and for “The Hand Drum,” a National Geographic All Roads Festival selection. He occasionally appears as the performance/street poet Chuck Calabreze.