“To read a new and selected collection is to experience the evolution of a voice, in this case an essential voice in American poetry. To sit with the whole of these transportive, immersive poems is to awaken like a wild riparian corridor in spring. Wildflowers on the banks. Birdsong in the branches. The reader’s heart is a bud: open. Beautiful work.”
— Chris Dombrowski, The River You Touch















Poet Todd Davis’s latest collection is Ditch Memory: New and Selected Poems. This is Todd’s third time on Contemplify, and like the previous conversations we find our charge in the sacred strides of cultivating attention. The poetry of Todd Davis stretches me and helps me scratch the dirt of what is real, to taste and relish my short passage through this world. I think he will do the same for you.



Visit Todd Davis at todddavispoet.com















Episode Show Notes



Works by Todd Davis




Ditch Memory: New and Selected Poems



Coffin Honey



Native Species



Winterkill



In the Kingdom of the Ditch



Todd Davis’s full catalog








Resources & People Mentioned




Dave Shumate



W.B. Yeats



Mary Oliver



Wendell Berry



Hildegard of Bingen



David James Duncan



Chris Dombrowski



Mary Rose O’Reilley








Drink Recommended




Sleepytime tea with Peace Orange Tea with a dab of honey












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