His first collection, Vellum, was selected by Mark Doty for the Bakeless Prize in Poetry and is also the winner of the Levis Reading Prize. His poems have been published in AGNI, Poetry, The Kenyon Review, The Gettysburg Review, The Threepenny Review, and The Virginia Quarterly Review. He is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize (2008) and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts (2004). Donovan’s poetry appears in this issue of Blackbird along with an audio documentation of his reading on the occasion of winning the Levis Reading Prize from Virginia Commonwealth University.