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The lines in John Davis’s poems saunter and slide with a rhythm that shows music is the heartbeat and blood of his life. It carries him through youth in the `50s and`60s, through his work in a garage door factory, and even through a snowstorm as it keeps him from freezing when he helps a friend move. And [...]
After all the long hours and hard work, not just by the author but the designers and editors as well, it’s always exciting to see a book start coming together. Here’s the cover for our latest release, Gigs by John Davis, which will be available later this year.
The off-key clarinetist will never hit the high C in ”Tequila,” but she keeps on blowing and the marching band keeps on enlarging its column right corners in the final rehearsal before school begins. All August a school daze has been approaching like a glow-worm. The fifth-year senior has tattooed his forearm with a naked [...]
Two trains are racing as two trains are wont to do, one at 50 mph from Memphis, engineer chewing on a blues tune, flicking it around his tongue like a toothpick. The other train is hustling up from Albuquerque at 70 mph, engineer longing for his darling, singing an empty-saddle song, tipping his hat. Which [...]
It is time once again to announce the newest inclusion into our Poetry Series, and we are proud to have selected Gigs by John Davis. A note on Gigs from our judges: Blues in D minor, big bellies over factory belts, and Elvis Presley license plates—Gigs is a collection of poems that shows us the [...]
