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Northfield VT, - Norwich University’s 2016-17 Writers Series will bring award winning author Todd Davis to campus on Wednesday, April 6th, at 4pm in the Kreitzberg Library Multipurpose room.

Todd Davis is an author of five full length collections of poetry. He edited non-fiction collection Fast Break to Line Break: Poets on the Art of Basketball and was co-editor on Making Poems: Forty Poems with Commentary.

Davis’ poetry has been featured on the radio in The Writer’s Almanac. His poetry has won the Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry prize, the Chautauqua Editor’s prize, and have been nominated several times for the Pushcart prize. His poetry has been featured in the American Poetry Review, North American Review, and many other journals.

Davis is brought here with the Writer’s Series and will give a brief presentation about his works and then will open for questions.

Norwich Writer’s Series is produced to the College of Liberal Arts, the Department of English and Communications. All Writer’s Series events are free and open to the public.

Here is an example of Todd Davis’ poetry:

Sleep

On the ridge above Skelp Road
bears binge on blackberries and apples,
even grapes, knocking down
the Petersens’ arbor to satisfy the sweet
hunger that consumes them. Just like us
they know the day must come when
the heart slows, when to take one
more step would mean the end of things
as they should be. Sleep is a drug;
dreams its succor. How better to drift
toward another world but with leaves
falling, their warmth draping us,
our stomachs full and fat with summer?