Garrick Davis is the founding editor of the Contemporary Poetry Review, the largest online archive of poetry criticism in the world. His poetry and criticism have appeared in The New Criterion, The Cortland Review, The Weekly Standard, McSweeney’s, and The Potomac. His anthology of the best poetry criticism of the 20th century, Praising It New, was published by the Ohio University Press in 2008. He works for the National Endowment for the Arts in Washington, D.C.