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Todd Davis, award-winning poet and professor of English and environment studies at Penn State Altoona

Rolling Reading Series to feature poet and Penn State Professor Todd Davis

Award-winning poet Todd Davis, known for his lyric meditations on the natural beauty of his Pennsylvania home ground, will offer a reading as part of the Mary E. Rolling Reading Series. Davis is a professor of English and environmental studies at Penn State Altoona. The free public reading will be held at 7:30 pm. on Thursday, Nov. 14, in Paterno Library’s Foster Auditorium.
Native Species by Todd Davis

Native Species Poetry

Native Species, published by the Michigan State University Press, explores the questions of humanity’s uncertain place in nature and what happens to the souls of all creatures after death. Harvard Review proclaimed it “unflinchingly candid and enduringly compassionate.” 

Todd Davis, professor of English and environmental studies at Penn State Altoona

Todd Davis, Mary E. Rolling Reading Series

Award-winning poet Todd Davis, known for his lyric meditations on the natural beauty of his Pennsylvania home ground, will offer a reading as part of the Mary E. Rolling Reading Series. Davis is also a professor of English and environmental studies at Penn State Altoona.