Axton Reading Series Presents Adam O. Davis
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Join us for the final Axton Reading Series event of the semester, a poetry reading with Adam O. Davis.
Adam O. Davis is the author of Pyrrhic Symphony (University of Nebraska Press, 2026), winner of the Raz/Shumaker Book Prize from Prairie Schooner, and index of haunted houses (Sarabande books, 2020), winner of the Kathryn A. Morton poetry prize and finalist for the Big Other Book Award for Poetry. The recipient of the 2022 Poetry International Prizeand the 2016 George Bogin Memorial award from the poetry society of America, he has received grants and fellowships from The Bishop's School, Columbia university, the New Literary Project, the Prague Summer program for writers, and Vermont studio center. He is also, with Colin Waters, the co-creator & host of the Poetry Goes to the Movies podcast. His work has appeared widely in journals and anthologies, including The believer, The best American Poetry, Boston review, The Cincinnati Review, Denver quarterly, the Paris review, the Poetry Review, the southern review, West Branch, and zyzzyva.
Davis was born in Tucson, Arizona and raised in Scotland, Utah, France, New Jersey, and California. He holds a B.A. in Creative Writing from the University of California - Riverside, and an M.F.A. in Poetry from Columbia University. he currently teaches English at the Bishop's School in San Diego, California.
This event will be followed by a poetry workshop on Nov. 13 with Davis, open to the public. The workshop runs from 10 a.m. to noon in MITC 201 and will be followed in the same location by a closing reception from noon to 1 p.m.