Olena Kalytiak Davis





Olena Kalytiak Davis

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born
January 01, 1963


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American poet Olena Kalytiak Davis was born in 1963. She is the author of two poetry collections: 'And Her Soul Out Of Nothing' and 'Shattered Sonnets, Love Cards, And Other Off-And-Back Handed Importunities.'

Her first book won the Brittingham Prize. Her other honors include a a 1996 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award in poetry, and a 2004 Guggenheim Fellowship in poetry.

Her poems have been published in literary journals and magazines including AGNI, Field, Indiana Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, New England Review, Poetry Northwest, Post Road Magazine and in anthologies including 'Best American Poetry 1995' and 'Legitimate Dangers: American Poets of the New Century.'

She is a first-generation Ukrainian-American, and grew up in Detroit,...more


Average rating: 4.12 · 473 ratings · 52 reviews · 3 distinct works
And Her Soul Out Of Nothing
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On the Kitchen Table from W...
4.19 of 5 stars 4.19 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 2009 — 2 editions
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“The situation is grave: the way we lean over each other, the way years later we emerge: hunchbacked, hooded, with full grown tender things called souls”
Olena Kalytiak Davis, And Her Soul Out Of Nothing

“O, to be stung by an errant bee. O, to sting.
O, to see you again. Covered in spring.”
Olena Kalytiak Davis, And Her Soul Out Of Nothing



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