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Penn State Altoona professor to serve as featured poet at New Jersey festival
Todd Davis, professor of English and environmental studies at Penn State Altoona, will be a featured poet at the Dodge Poetry Festival in Newark, New Jersey.
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October 14, 2024
ALTOONA, Pa. - Todd Davis, professor of English and environmental studies at Penn State Altoona, will be a featured poet at the Dodge Poetry Festival in Newark, New Jersey.
The biennial Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival, the largest poetry event in North America, takes place Oct. 17-19 at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center. Davis will read from his new book, "Ditch Memory: New & Selected Poems," on three separate panels: "Writing Our Land: Environmental Justice," "A Poet's Heart Is Always Breaking," and "Griots, Troubadours and MCs: Poetry and the Oral Tradition."
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