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.

Preliminary Report (Copper Canyon Press, 2010), Local Color (Palanquin Press, 1995), Scrimmage of Appetite (Akron University Press, 1995), The Hawk. The Road. The Sunlight After Clouds. (Owl Creek Press, 1995), Dangerous Amusements (Ontario Review Press, 1987)

Strange Attractors: Poems of Love & Mathematics (A.K. Peters, Ltd., 2008), No Boundaries (Tupelo Press, 2005), Photographers, Writers, and the American Scene: Visions of Passage (Arena Editions, 2002), The Best of The Prose Poem (White Pine Press, 2002), Poet's Choice: Poems for Everyday Life (Ecco Press, 1999), Sixty Years of American Poetry (Harry N. Abrams, 1996), Cape Discovery: The Fine Arts Work Center Anthology (Sheep Meadow Press, 1994), The Last Best Place (Montana Historical Society Press, 1988)

American Letters & Commentary, Colorado Review, Five Fingers Review, Georgia Review, Hambone, Iowa Review, Manoa, Narrative Magazine, Ploughshares, Poetry