Noah Davis’ second collection of poems The Last Beast We Revel In was published by CavanKerry Press in April 2025. His first book Of This River was selected for the 2019 Wheelbarrow Emerging Poet Book Prize from Michigan State University’s Center for Poetry. Davis earned his MFA in poetry at Indiana University and has published work in The Sun, Best New Poets, Poet Lore, Southern Humanities Review, The Year’s Best Sports Writing, Orion, Southern Humanities Review, North American Review, and Chautauqua among others. Davis was also a Katharine Bakeless Nason Fellow at the Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference and the recipient of the 2018 Jean Ritchie Appalachian Literature Fellowship from Lincoln Memorial University.
Tracing
Tracing My mother has two, six-inch long scars on the front of her shoulders as if heaven made a mistake and stitched wings on the wrong side and angels had to saw them off. But truthfully, while playing basketball, the bird of her bone simply fell from the nest of her joint. She was opened by a surgeon’s knifedifferently …