Todd Davis on Ditch Memory

"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