Garrick Davis
Garrick Davis (born 1971 in Los Angeles) is an American poet and critic. He is Poetry Editor of "First Things" magazine. Career. He is the founding editor of the "Contemporary Poetry Review", the largest online archive of poetry criticism in the English-speaking world. The CPR 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. 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 number of literary magazines including "Verse", "McSweeney’s", the "Alabama Literary Review", and the "New York Sun". He is the historian of the National Endowment for the Arts in Washington DC. 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. Books. Poetry. "Terminal Diagrams" (Ohio University Press/Swallow, 2010) Anthologies. "Child of the Ocmulgee: The Selected Poems of Freda Quenneville." Edited by Garrick Davis (Michigan State University Press, 2002) "Praising It New: The Best of the New Criticism." Edited by Garrick Davis (Ohio University Press, 2008) Personal life. Davis is married. He lives with his wife the Newsmax Journalist Emerald Robinson and son in the suburbs of Washington DC.