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Alli­son Pitinii Davis

Alli­son Pitinii Davis, PhD, is the author of Line Study of a Motel Clerk (Baobab Press, 2017), a final­ist for the Nation­al Jew­ish Book Award’s Berru Award for Poet­ry, and Pop­py Seeds (Kent State Uni­ver­si­ty Press, 2013), win­ner of the Wick Poet­ry Chap­book Prize. She holds fel­low­ships from Stan­ford University’s Wal­lace Steg­n­er pro­gram, the Fine Arts Work Cen­ter in Province­town, and the Sev­er­ing­haus Beck Fund for Study at Vil­nius Yid­dish Insti­tute. Her poet­ry appeared in Best Amer­i­can Poet­ry 2016, POETS​.org, The New Repub­lic, and elsewhere.

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From the Journal

In the Begin­ning the Neigh­bor­hood Girls Read Philip Roth Drunk in Their Baths

Alli­son Pitinii Davis
February 11, 2019
Essay

Writ­ing the Jew­ish Rust Belt

I sus­pect that there are read­ers like me who find noth­ing strange about love and Spin­oza, about Coors Light and Treblinka.

Alli­son Pitinii Davis
April 16, 2018
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Line Study of a Motel Clerk
Alli­son Pitinii Davis

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