Jordan Davis (born 1970 in
New York City
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) is an American
poet
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. He is one of the
Flarf
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poets. He is poetry editor of ''
The Nation
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''.
Life
He graduated from
Columbia College, where he studied with
Kenneth Koch
Kenneth Koch ( ; 27 February 1925 – 6 July 2002) was an American poet, playwright, and professor, active from the 1950s until his death at age 77. He was a prominent poet of the New York School of poetry. This was a loose group of poets includ ...
.
He was editor of ''The Poetry Project Newsletter''. In 1998, he founded ''The Hat'', with Christopher Edgar.
His work appeared in ''Poetry'', ''Boston Review,'' and ''3:AM Magazine.''
Works
* ''Million Poems Journal'', Faux, 2003,
* ''Shell Game'', Edge Books, 2018,
;Co-edited
* ''Free Radicals: American Poets Before Their First Books'', Subpress, 2004,
* ''The Collected Poems of Kenneth Koch'', Knopf, 2005.
* ''P.O.D. (Poems On Demand)'', Greying Ghost. 2011.
References
External links
Poet's website
American male poets
1970 births
Living people
Poets from New York (state)
The Nation (U.S. magazine) people
Columbia College (New York) alumni
21st-century American poets
21st-century American male writers
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