An Amiable Reception for the Acrobat (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781946830050)

Jon Davis is the author of five poetry chapbooks and seven full-length collections of poetry, including Above the Bejeweled City (Grid Books, 2021), Amiable Reception for the Acrobat (Grid Books, 2020), and Improbable Creatures winner of the 2017 Off the Grid Poetry Prize. He was co-translator, with the author, of Iraqi poet Naseer Hassan's Dayplaces. Davis has received a Lannan Literary Award in Poetry, the Peter I.B. Lavan Prize from the Academy of American Poets, the Off the Grid Poetry Prize, and two National Endowment for the Arts' poetry fellowships. He was the city of Santa Fe's fourth Poet Laureate and taught for 23 years at the Institute of American Indian Arts before founding, in 2013, the IAIA low residency MFA in Creative Writing, which he directed until his retirement in 2018.