Garrick Davis

Garrick Davis is the historian of the National Endowment for the Arts in Washington DC and Program Manager for the Deputy Chairman for Partnerships. He has also served as the NEA's Literature Specialist (2005–2008) as well as the specialist responsible for the NEA's Arts Journalism Institutes and the Poetry Out Loud program. Davis is a poet and the founding editor of the Contemporary Poetry ReviewExternal Link, the largest online archive of poetry criticism in the English-speaking world. The CPR was founded in 1998, and was o His criticism appears regularly in the Contemporary Poetry Review. His work has also been published in the New Criterion, the Weekly Standard and Humanities magazine. His poetry has appeared in a numerous literary magazines including Verse, McSweeney’s, the Alabama Literary Review, and the New York Sun. A collection of his poems, Terminal Diagrams, was published in 2010.