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    Line Study of a Motel Clerk

    Finalist of The National Jewish Book Award and the Ohioana Poetry Award

    Allison Pitinii Davis speaks Ohioan, as James Wright wryly put it, and gives us a world in this utterly fresh, well-crafted, and exhilarating debut volume.  
    —EDWARD HIRSCH, author of Gabriel

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    Poppy Seeds

    Winner of the Wick Poetry Chapbook Prize

    As the title Poppy Seeds suggests, Allison Davis's poems are hard and small and round enough to travel just about anywhere.
    —KATHY FAGAN, author of Sycamore 

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    The Best American Poetry

    Edited by Edward Hirsch

    "The Heart of It All + A Free Beer" (Originally printed in The Sycamore Review)

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    Peatsmoke

    Art by Karl Zuehlke

    Two poems from Lordstown Syndrome

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    DUSIE: Tuesday Poem

    #442

    "Old World Orthography"

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    Academy of American Poets

    Selected by Joy Harjo

    "The Function of Humor in the Neighborhood"

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    The Missouri Review

    Finalist of the Editors' Prize

    "The Neighborhood Girls Caught Lordstown Syndrome," "The Neighborhood and Surrounding City, 1926-2019," “The Neighborhood Girls Fantasize About the WKBN Meteorologist,” “The Neighborhood Girls Ask the WKBN Meteorologist,” “10¢ Beer Night at Municipal Stadium, Cleveland, Ohio, June 4, 1974,” “The WKBN Meteorologist Finally Stops by the Dairy Queen,” “The Neighborhood Girls Go On Strike,” “The Neighborhood Girls Offer Me” 

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    The Cincinnati Review

    miCRo Series

    "The Neighborhood Girls Sabotage the Dairy Queen Order"

    Nominated for Best of the Net 2021

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    Split This Rock

    The Quarry: A Social Justice Database

    "The Motel Clerk's Son Drives Out to Check on Business, 1977" 

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    The Jewish Book Council

    Paper Brigade 

    Poems: "In the Begin­ning the Neigh­bor­hood Girls Read Philip Roth Drunk in Their Baths" and "The Goodyear Blimp Flies Over the Neighborhood Girls"

    Essay: "Writ­ing the Jew­ish Rust Belt"

    Reviews and author page
     

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    Marsh Hawk Review

    Fall 2020

    "On a Day Off, The Neighborhood Girls Try to Save the 1917 Paramount Theater" and "The Neighborhood Girls Can't Measure Up"

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    Diode

    11.3

    "The Neighborhood Girls Watch Attack of the 50 Foot Woman," and "The Neighborhood Girls Rise Like Man-Eating Zombies" (Verse Daily Web Weekly Feature, Nov. 19, 2018)

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    Juked

    Number 17

    "The Neighborhood Girls Play the Drinking Game Thunderstruck During the Thunderstorm While Watching WKBN First News Weather Updates,” “The Neighborhood Girls Yank on the Cigarette Machine During Their Partly Cloudy Smoke Break,” and “The Neighborhood Girls Take a Road Trip to Cleveland” 

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    Linebreak

    Read by Emilia Phillips

    “The Neighborhood Girls Fall for the WKBN Meteorologist" 

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    Crab Orchard Review

    22

    "The Neighborhood Girls Watch the New WKBN Meteorologist" 

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    Construction

    Conflict and Displacement Issue

    "The Neighborhood Girls Split Tips After Their Shift, Late May" 

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    Foreward Reviews

    Poetry Month Feature

    "The Marquee is Empty at the Big Rig Saloon"

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    The New Republic

    243.20

    “Waiting in the Midwest” 

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    Connotation Press

    Interviewed by Cheryl Torsney

    “Greetings from 41°6′0″N 80°39′0″W,” “Last One Out Of Youngtown Turn Off The Lights,” “Swings, 1970,” and “Boom Boom"  

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    Crazyhorse

    Number 89

    "In the Back of the Innkeeper's Mind, The Key Rack"

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    Black Warrior Review

    41.2

    “Falls In Love, Or Reads Spinoza,” reprinted in Corpus Poeticum Spinozanum

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    Poecology

    Issue 4

    “Night Portrait of a Motel Clerk” and “Ohio” 

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    Verse Daily

    Features

    Web Weekly Feature, November 19, 2018:  "The Neighborhood Girls Watch Attack of the 50 Foot Woman" 

     

    “Beautiful, The Dead End" reprinted from Poppy Seeds

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    The Missouri Review

    Finalist of Editors' Prize

    Poems: “Inheritance," “Arriving in Canada,” “Language Loosened Back,” “The Innkeeper Gets Bad Reception of Cleveland 100.7 FM,” “Dead Language,” “Song of the Dead Office,” and “Greetings from the End of the Line" 

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    Essay: “The Ethics of Address: Writing to The Rustbelt in the Age of Trump"

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    Blue Lyra Review

    4.3

    Translation of "Songs of a Poorman 1 & 3" by Moyshe Kulbak from Yiddish

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    Interviews and Reviews

    Selected

    • “High culture takes on new meaning at local bars" by Grant Segall in The Plain Dealer (2020)​

    • Review by Nina Murray on The Same (2018)

    • Craft talk with Ryan Walsh at The Baoblog (2018)

    • "The poetry of Youngstown" by Guy D’Astolfo in The Youngstown Vindicator (2017)

    • Interview with Bailey Boyd at The Missouri Review (2017)

    • Interview with Allison Reck at Midwestern Gothic (2017)

    • "The Aesthetics of Ruin: "Come rummage through our guts," by Rochelle Hurt at The Best American Poetry Blog (2014)

    • Review of Poppy Seeds by Erica Spriggs in Poetry International Online (2015)