
Todd Davis, Ph.D., professor of English and Environmental Science at Pennsylvania State University's Altoona College, reads poetry selections, in the Milligan Room inside Slocum Hall, 75 S. Sandusky St., Delaware. Davis is the author of eight full-length poetry collections, including his most recent, "Ditch Memory: New & Selected Poems," "Coffin Honey," and "Native Species." His work has won the Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Prize, the Chautauqua Editor's Prize, the Midwest Book Award, the ForeWord INDIES Book of the Year Bronze and Silver Awards, and the Bloomsburg University Book Prize. More than 400 of his poems have appeared in publications including American Poetry Review. Learn more about Davis at www.todddavispoet.com. His presentation is sponsored by OWU's departments of Environment and Sustainability and English. It is the university's 2024-2025 David G. Osborne Lecture, created in memory of the former professor of English and Humanities-Classics. Admission is free. For more information, visit owu.edu/environment and owu.edu/English.