Join us in celebrating the launch of William Virgil Davis’s new collection, Dismantlements of Silence: Poems Selected and New (Texas Review Press).

William Virgil Davis’s most recent book of poetry is Dismantlements of Silence: Poems Selected and New (2015). He has published five other books of poetry: The Bones Poems; Landscape and Journey, which won the New Criterion Poetry Prize and the Helen C. Smith Memorial Award for Poetry; Winter Light; The Dark Hours, which won the Calliope Press Chapbook Prize; and One Way to Reconstruct the Scene, which won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize. His poems have appeared in most of the major periodicals, here and abroad, including Agenda, The Atlantic Monthly, The Gettysburg Review, The Georgia Review, The Harvard Review, The Hopkins Review, The Hudson Review The Nation, The New Criterion, PN Review, Poetry, The Sewanee Review, Southwest Review, The Southern Review, and TriQuarterly, among many others. He is past President of the Texas Institute of Letters and Professor Emeritus of English and Writer-in-Residence at Baylor University.