Olena Kalytiak Davis. Courtesy University of Wisconsin Press.
Olena Kalytiak Davis (born 1963) is an American poet.[1]
Life[]
Davis is a 1st-generation Ukrainian-American, who grew up in Detroit. She has since lived in San Francisco, Prague, Lviv, Paris, Chicago, and the Yup'ik community of Bethel, Alaska, and currently lives in Anchorage, Alaska.
She was educated at Wayne State University, University of Michigan Law School, and Vermont College of Fine Arts.[2]
Her poems have been published in literary journals and magazines including AGNI,[3] New England Review, Poetry Northwest, Michigan Quarterly Review, Field, Indiana Review, Post Road Magazine and in anthologies including Best American Poetry 1995 and Legitimate Dangers: American Poets of the New Century (Sarabande Books).[4] She is also a contributing editor of the Alaska Quarterly Review.
Recognition[]
Her debut poetry collection, 1997's And Her Soul Out of Nothing, won the Brittingham Prize in Poetry. Her honors include a 2004 Guggenheim Fellowship in poetry[5] and a 1996 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award in poetry.[6]
Publications[]
- In Defense of Marriage. Madison, WI: Silver Buckle Press, 1997.
- And Her Soul Out of Nothing. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1997.
- Shattered Sonnets, Love cards, and other off and back handed importunities. New York: Bloomsbury, 2003; Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 2014.
- On the Kitchen Table From Which Everything Has Been Hastily Removed: A chapbook. Venice, CA: Hollyridge Press, 2009.
- The Poem She Didn't Write, and other poems. Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 2014.
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Except where noted, bibliographical information courtesy WorldCat.[7]
See also[]
References[]
Notes[]
- ↑ Michigan Poetry - Michigan Poets Past and Present: Olena Kalytiak Davis
- ↑ University of Wisconsin Press > Author Page > Olena Kalytiak Davis
- ↑ AGNI Online > A Small Number By Olena Kalytiak Davis
- ↑ Sarabande Books > Catalog > Legitimate Dangers
- ↑ John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation > Fellows Finder > Olena Kalytiak Davis
- ↑ The Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Awards > Past Recipients
- ↑ Search results = au:Olena Kalytiak Davis, WorldCat, OCLC Online Computer Library Center Inc. Web, Sep. 14, 2015.
External links[]
- Poems
- "Small Number" at Agni
- "Something More Fragile Than This"
- Olena Kalytiak Davis profile & 4 poems at the Academy of American Poets
- Olena Kalytiak Davis b. 1963 at the Poetry Foundation
- Audio / video
- Books
- Olena Kalytiak Davis at Amazon.com
- About
- "You and Me Both", review of The Poem She Didn't Write, and other poems in the New Yorker
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