The Last Beast We Revel In
In this valley, where mules catch pigeons / in their mouths
Noah Davis grew up in Tipton, Pennsylvania, and writes about the Allegheny Front. Davis’ second poetry collection The Last Beast We Revel In was published by CavanKerry Press in 2025. His first collection Of This River was selected for the 2019 Wheelbarrow Emerging Poet Book Prize from Michigan State University’s Center for Poetry. His poems and prose have appeared in The Sun, Best New Poets, The Christian Science Monitor, Southern Humanities Review, Orion, North American Review, River Teeth, and The Year’s Best Sports Writing among others. His poetry and prose have been awarded a Katharine Bakeless Nason Fellowship at the Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference along with the 2018 Jean Ritchie Appalachian Literature Fellowship from Lincoln Memorial University. Davis earned an MFA at Indiana University.
Noah Davis is a poet whose capacious imagination runs on river sounds and open air.
-Adrian Matejka, Pulitzer Prize Finalist and editor of Poetry.
Noah Davis 