Jon Davis 1998 Lannan Literary Award for Poetry

Jon Davis has published six collection of poetry, including Preliminary Report (2010) and Scrimmage of Appetite (1995). His awards include two NEA Fellowships, the G.E. Younger Writers Award, The Lavan Award from the Academy of American Poets, a fellowship to The Fine Arts Work Center, and a Lannan Literary Award. He has served as Writing Program Coordinator for The Fine Arts Work Center, edited the literary journals Shankpainter and Countermeasures: A Magazine of Poetry & Ideas, and taught at the University of Montana, College of Santa Fe, and Salisbury University. Since 1990, he has been a member of the Creative Writing faculty at the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA) in Santa Fe.

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Jon Davis on Marfa Public Radio

Listen to Lannan writer-in-residence, poet Jon Davis, interviewed on Talk at Ten on Marfa Public Radio

Leopold Bloom: Sensual Cuckold, Crucified Jew, Heroic Pacifist

Professor James Heffernan will give an in-depth talk on Leopold Bloom, the hero of James Joyce’s celebrated novel Ulysses, to commemorate Bloomsday in Santa Fe. 16 June 2013.
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Natalie Diaz Receives Literary Fellowship

Poet and short fiction writer Natalie Diaz is a recipient of a 2012 Lannan Literary Fellowship. Her brilliant first collection of poetry, When My Brother Was an Aztec, was published earlier this year by Copper Canyon Press. Read more.

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