Todd Davis
Host of Poetry MomentTodd Davis is the 2022-23 host of "Poetry Moment" on WPSU.
For the past 20 years, Davis has lived and worked along the Allegheny Front between the villages of Bellwood and Tipton. He is the author of seven books of poetry, including most recently “Coffin Honey” and “Native Species,” both published by Michigan State University Press. He edited the nonfiction collection, Fast Break to Line Break: Poets on the Art of Basketball, and co-edited the anthology Making Poems. His writing has won the Midwest Book Award, the Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Prize, the Chautauqua Editors Prize, and the Foreword INDIES Book of the Year. He teaches environmental studies, creative writing, and American literature at Pennsylvania State University’s Altoona College.
You can find out more about Davis on his website.
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WPSU's Poetry Moment features poet Hayden Saunier and her poem “Dear Friend Since Childhood." -
WPSU's Poetry Moment features the work of poet Ann Hostetler and her poem "Heirlooms." -
WPSU's 2023 Student Poetry Writing Contest winners Allison Caron, Poppy Goble, Eveline Overdurf and Aurea Slimak read their poems to celebrate April's National Poetry Month. -
WPSU's Poetry Moment features poet Lilace Mellin Guignard and her poem “Lullaby in Fracktown.” -
WPSU's Poetry Moment features the work of poet Raena Shirali and her poem "Aubade." -
WPSU's Poetry Moment features poet Rebecca Foust and her poem “Altoona to Anywhere.” -
WPSU's Poetry Moment features the work of poet Patricia Jabbeh Wesley and her poem "Black Woman Selling Her Home in America." -
WPSU's Poetry Moment features poet Dave Bonta and his poem "Reflection." -
WPSU's Poetry Moment features poet Heather McNaugher and her poem "Washer & Dryer." -
WPSU's Poetry Moment features the poetry of Sean Thomas Dougherty and his poem 'In the Light of One Lamp.'
