FACEBOOK WATCH PARTY:
The Teri Cross Davis Interview
Thursday, April 30, at 2:00 pm
FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
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Join us for a watch party to view an interview with Teri Cross Davis, poetry coordinator for the Folger Shakespeare Library’s Hardison poetry series. Teri will discuss how she selects the poets who appear in the series. Teri also is an award-winning poet in her own right, and will share with Arts Club members a few poems from her new work, "a more perfect Union."
ABOUT TERI CROSS DAVIS
Teri Ellen Cross Davis is the author of the forthcoming collection "a more perfect Union," winner of the 2019 Journal/Charles B. Wheeler Poetry Prize and "Haint," (2016, Gival Press) winner of the 2017 Ohioana Book Award for Poetry. A Cave Canem fellow, she has been awarded residencies at the Community of Writers Workshop, Hedgebrook, the Soul Mountain Writer’s Retreat, the Virginia Center for Creative Arts and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. She is on the Advisory Council of Split This Rock (a biennial poetry festival in Washington DC), a semi-finalist and finalist judge for the National Endowment for the Arts Poetry Out Loud and a member of the Black Ladies Brunch Collective. She is the recipient of a 2019 Sustainable Arts grant and a Meret grant from the Freya Project.
Her work has been published in many anthologies including: Bum Rush The Page: A Def Poetry Jam, Gathering Ground: A Reader Celebrating Cave Canem's First Decade, Growing Up Girl, Full Moon on K Street: Poems About Washington, DC, Check the Rhyme: An Anthology of Female Poets & Emcees, The Golden Shovel Anthology: New Poems Honoring Gwendolyn Brooks and Not Without Our Laughter: poems of joy, humor, and sexuality. Her work can be read in the following journals: ArLiJo, Auburn Avenue, Beltway Poetry Quarterly, Delaware Poetry Review, Fledging Rag, Gargoyle, Harvard Review, Kestrel, Kinfolks, Little Patuxent Review, Love's Executive Order, MiPOesias, Mom Egg Review, Natural Bridge, North American Review, Pacifica Literary Review, Poet Lore, Poetry Ireland Review, Raising Mothers, Tin House, Torch, and Sligo Journal. She is the HoCoPoLitSo (Howard County Poetry and Literature Society) Writer-in-Residence for 2019-2020 and an adjunct professor at George Washington University.
She is the Poetry Coordinator for the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington D.C. and lives in Maryland with her husband, poet Hayes Davis and their two children.
