Garrick Davis


Garrick Davis is an American poet and critic. He was Poetry Editor of First Things magazine from 2020 until 2021.

Career

Davis is the founding editor of the Contemporary Poetry Review, the largest online archive of poetry criticism in the English-speaking world. His criticism appears regularly in the Contemporary Poetry Review.
Davis' work has also been published in the New Criterion, the Weekly Standard and Humanities magazine.
His poetry has appeared in a number of literary magazines including Verse, McSweeney’s, the Alabama Literary Review, and the New York Sun.

Contemporary Poetry Review

The Contemporary Poetry Review, the largest online archive of poetry criticism in the English-speaking world, was founded in 1998, and was one of the earliest literary reviews in the United States to be published exclusively on the Internet. Regular contributors to the review have included a number of distinguished American poet-critics including Ernest Hilbert, David Yezzi, Adam Kirsch, Dillon Tracy, Bill Coyle, and Joan Houlihan. Its regular foreign contributors include the Irish poet-critics Justin Quinn and David Wheatley, and the Indian critic Rabindra Swain. Ernest Hilbert edited the Contemporary Poetry Review, from 2005-2010.

Books

Poetry

''Terminal Diagrams''

Anthologies

Child of the Ocmulgee: The Selected Poems of Freda Quenneville. Edited by Garrick Davis
Praising It New: The Best of the New Criticism. Edited by Garrick Davis

Personal life

Davis is married. He lives with his wife Emerald Robinson and son in the suburbs of Washington DC.

Videos

  • Articles

  • New Criterion. Feb. 2007.
  • The Weekly Standard. March 12, 2007.
  • April 17, 2006.
  • New Criterion. Feb. 2008.
  • Humanities Magazine. July/August 2011.
  • Humanities Magazine. Fall 2016.
  • First Things. November 2016.
  • First Things. August 2017.
  • First Things. August, 2018.
  • Human Events. October, 2019.

    Articles:CPR

  • Contemporary Poetry Review. 2002.
  • Contemporary Poetry Review. 2003.
  • Contemporary Poetry Review. 2003.
  • Contemporary Poetry Review. 2004.
  • Contemporary Poetry Review. 2005.
  • Contemporary Poetry Review. 2005.
  • Contemporary Poetry Review. 2005.
  • Contemporary Poetry Review. 2012.

    Interviews:CPR

  • Contemporary Poetry Review. 2003
  • Contemporary Poetry Review. 2003
  • Contemporary Poetry Review. 2004
  • Contemporary Poetry Review. 2005
  • Contemporary Poetry Review. 2008
  • Contemporary Poetry Review. 2009

    Poems

  • Cortland Review. Summer 2006.
  • The Potomac Review. Feb. 2007.
  • Drunken Boat. March 2009.
  • New Criterion. May, 2013.

    Translations

  • McSweeney's. Dec. 2004.

    Reviews of His Books

  • The Chronicle of Higher Education. Dec. 2007.
  • Virginia Quarterly Review. Summer 2008.
  • New York Sun. August 13, 2008.
  • The New Criterion. April 2008.
  • Wall Street Journal. August 2, 2008.
  • First Principles. 2010.
  • Eclectica Magazine. July/Aug 2011.
  • Eclectica Magazine. July/Aug 2009.
  • Strong Verse. 2011.