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Thomas Davis

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in Delta, Colorado, The United States

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Thomas Davis is an American writer and has served as the Chief Academic Officer, President, or Acting President of five tribal colleges and universities. He also helped found the World Indigenous Nations Higher Education Consortium, which represents indigenous controlled post-secondary institutions of higher learning from the United States, Canada, Australia, Europe, and the Far East.

Davis has written and had published non-fiction, fiction, and poetry books and has had articles and essays appear in a number of magazines and academic journals. He has also had plays performed in Minnesota and Wisconsin. His novel, In the Unsettled Homeland of Dreams, won the Edna Ferber Fiction Book Award in 2019. A powerful performer, he has given poetry rea ...more

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	In the Unsettled Homeland of Dreams 3.81 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 2019 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sustaining the Forest, the People, and the Spirit 3.20 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2000 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Inside the Blowholes 3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Salt Bear it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2011	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Weirding Storm, A Dragon Epic it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Prophecy of the Wolf it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Thomas Davis liked Marjane's review of Story Poems From a Western Colorado Boyhood: "Patrick McManus meet Wendell Berry While these stories mostly describe life in a place (western Colorado), they also describe an era (the 1950s and ‘60s). Thomas Davis’s parents resembled my own in some ways: They often set us loose to explore the out" Read more of this review »
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Thomas Davis and 1 other person liked John Baker's review of Story Poems From a Western Colorado Boyhood: "4-1/2 ⭐️ Book! I rarely read poetry, but Davis’s poetry reads easily like prose! Since I am from Western Colorado - I connected with most of his pieces! But “The Kingdom of Grand Mesa” keyed my memories of “night fly fishing” with my Dad on the shore" Read more of this review »
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“In education if you strengthen a strength you weaken a weakness.”
― Thomas Davis

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“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I -
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.”
― Robert Frost

tags: choice, consequence, individuality, inspirational

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“In education if you strengthen a strength you weaken a weakness.”
― Thomas Davis

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“Your intuition knows what to write, so get out of the way.”
― Ray Bradbury

tags: writing

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“There are three points of view from which a writer can be considered: he may be considered as a storyteller, as a teacher, and as an enchanter. A major writer combines these three — storyteller, teacher, enchanter — but it is the enchanter in him that predominates and makes him a major writer...The three facets of the great writer — magic, story, lesson — are prone to blend in one impression of unified and unique radiance, since the magic of art may be present in the very bones of the story, in the very marrow of thought...Then with a pleasure which is both sensual and intellectual we shall watch the artist build his castle of cards and watch the castle of cards become a castle of beautiful steel and glass.”
― Vladimir Nabokov

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¡ POETRY ! — 22557 members — last activity Feb 16, 2026 08:36PM
No pretensions: just poetry. Stop by, recommend books, offer up poems (excerpted), tempt us, taunt us, tell us what to read and where to go (to read No pretensions: just poetry. Stop by, recommend books, offer up poems (excerpted), tempt us, taunt us, tell us what to read and where to go (to read it!) Goodreads honors wordsmiths: poets and poetry promoted and prompted here. ~~~ "Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits." -- Carl Sandburg “God has a brown voice, as soft and full as beer.” —Anne Sexton On Clouds – “…what primitive tastes the ancients must have had if their poets were inspired by those absurd, untidy clumps of mist, idiotically jostling one another about…” —Yevgeny Zamyatin “If the poet wants to be a poet, the poet must force the poet to revise. If the poet doesn’t wish to revise, let the poet abandon poetry and take up stamp-collecting or real estate.” —Donald Hall “Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet pea that has run wild, Creation’s tears in shoulder blades.” —Boris Pasternak “Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket.” —Charles Simic “Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.” —Gustave Flaubert “Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It’s that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that’s what the poet does.” —Allen Ginsberg. ~~~~~ Amy King, Moderator Amy King is the recipient of the 2015 Winner of the WNBA Award (Women’s National Book Association). Her latest collection, The Missing Museum, is a winner of the 2015 Tarpaulin Sky Book Prize. She serves on the executive board of VIDA: Women in Literary Arts and is co-editing with Heidi Lynn Staples the anthology, Big Energy Poets of the Anthropocene: When Ecopoets Think Climate Change. She is also co-editing the anthology, Bettering American Poetry 2015, and is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at SUNY Nassau Community College. ...more

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