{{short description|American poet (born 1969)}} {{BLP sources|date=October 2015}} '''Davis McCombs''' (born 1969)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/davis-mccombs/|title=John Simon Guggenheim Foundation {{!}} Davis McCombs|language=en-US|access-date=2020-03-18}}</ref> 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 Poetry Foundation, the Kentucky Arts Council, the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation. He is the Director of the Program in Creative Writing and Translation at the University of Arkansas. He has published three collections of poetry: Ultima Thule (Yale University Press, 2000); Dismal Rock (Tupelo Press, 2007); and Lore (University of Utah Press, 2016).<ref>{{Cite web |title=Davis McCombs |url=https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/davis-mccombs |access-date=2026-03-18 |website=The Poetry Foundation}}</ref>
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.
==Awards== * 2005 Larry Levis Editor's Prize by ''The Missouri Review'' for a sixteen-part sequence of poems called "Tobacco Mosaic" * 2005 Vachel Lindsay Poetry Award from ''Willow Springs'' for his poem "Rossetti in 1869" * 2005 Joy Bale Boone award from ''Wind'' magazine's for a poem called "Noodling." * 2005 Dorset Prize, chosen by Linda Gregerson * 2015 Porter Prize
==Bibliography== ===Poetry collections=== *{{cite book |last= |first= |title=Ultima Thule |url=https://archive.org/details/ultimathule0000mcco |url-access=registration |location= |publisher=Yale University Press |year=2000 |isbn=978-0300083170}}<ref>Finalist, National Book Critics Circle Award</ref> *{{cite book |last= |first= |author-mask=1 |title=Dismal Rock |location= |publisher=Tupelo Press |year=2007 |isbn=978-1932195484}} *{{cite book |last= |first= |author-mask=1 |title=Lore |location= |publisher=University of Utah Press |year=2016|date=|isbn=978-1607814825}}
===List of poems=== {|class='wikitable sortable' width='90%' |- !width=25%|Title !|Year !|First published !|Reprinted/collected |- |First hard freeze |2011 |{{cite journal |author=McCombs, Davis |date=Summer 2011 |title=First hard freeze |journal=Indiana Review |volume=33 |issue=1}} |{{cite book |author=McCombs, Davis |editor-last=Henderson |editor-first=Bill |title=The Pushcart Prize XXXVII : best of the small presses 2013 |publisher=Pushcart Press |date=2013 |pages=357 |chapter=First hard freeze}} |- |Dumpster honey |2015 |{{cite magazine |author=McCombs, Davis |date=August 3, 2015 |title=Dumpster honey |magazine=The New Yorker |volume=91 |issue=22 |pages=26 |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/08/03/dumpster-honey |access-date=2016-03-21}} | |- |}
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==External links== *[https://dislocatemagazine.blogspot.com/2006/11/interview-project-3-davis-mccombs.html ''Interview Project #3: Davis McCombs '', dislocate blog, November 22, 2006] *[http://www.ket.org/cgi-bin/fw_mixedmedia.exe/db/ket/dmps/Programs?id=MIXM0226 ''Davis McCombs'', Mixed Media, KET] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110524225511/http://www.ket.org/cgi-bin/fw_mixedmedia.exe/db/ket/dmps/Programs?id=MIXM0226 |date=2011-05-24 }}
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