Not an it gets better kind of poem: a conversation with James Davis and Jessica Hammack

JAMES DAVIS is the author of the poetry collection Club Q, which won the Anthony Hecht Prize. His poetry has been featured on NBC News and CBC Radio and anthologized in two installments of Best New Poets (2011 and 2019). Recent poems have appeared or are forthcoming in the Bennington Review, Five Points, Literary Matters, Salamander, The Sewanee Review, and other notable venues. Originally from Colorado Springs, he lives in Denton, Texas, where he teaches English at the University of North Texas.

JESSICA HAMMACK is from Morgantown, West Virginia. Her poems have appeared in Beloit Poetry Journal, Cimarron Review, The Baltimore Review, Poet Lore, and other journals. She holds a BA in English literature from Hiram College, an MFA from the University of Florida, and an MLIS from the University of Maryland. She works as the head of research and instruction at the Beneficial-Hodson Library in Frederick, Maryland. 

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