William Virgil Davis

William Virgil Davis (born 1940) is an American poet.

He has published poems in Poetry, The Nation, The Hudson Review, The Georgia Review, The Hopkins Review, The Gettysburg Review, The New Criterion, The Sewanee Review, The Atlantic Monthly, Denver Quarterly, and Shenandoah, among others. He has also published several books of literary criticism, as well as critical essays in numerous periodicals. He is Professor of English and Writer-in-Residence at Baylor University.

Biography William Virgil Davis was born in the United States of America in 1940, in Ohio. He studied at Ohio University. He has lived and taught in Austria, Denmark and Wales for extended periods of time.

Awards 1979 Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize 1984 Calliope Press Chapbook Prize 2009 New Criterion Poetry Prize 2010 Helen C. Smith Memorial Award for Poetry