Because two heads is better than any other number of heads.

Kurtis Davidson

Publications

Novel:

  • What the Shadow Told Me: A Novel. Spokane: Eastern Washington University Press, 2005.

    • Winner/Gold Medalist, 2003 Pirate’s Alley William Faulkner Creative Writing Competition.

    • An excerpt from chapter 3 of What the Shadow Told Me appears in The Double Dealer, December 2004: 96-98.

Short stories:

  • "Great Forgotten American Poets of the 20th Century." The Portland Review 50.3 (Summer 2003): 46-51.

  • "Chocolate Milk Nosebleed Boys." Ink Pot 4 (2004): 51-57. Also published online at <http://www.literarypotpourri.com/004_09/ss_01.html>.

  • "Man with a Gun." The North American Review 289.3-4 (May-August 2004): 41-43.

  • "The Anxiety of Dick and Rummy: Nixon, Rumsfeld, and the Politics of Poetry." The Southeast Review 23.2 (Winter 2004-2005): 71-76.

  • "Gun Control." The Yalobusha Review 10 (2005): 106-108.

  • "Signs of Life." Backwards City Review 2.1 (Spring 2005): 98-103.

  • "Not Yet." Forthcoming in The Jabberwock Review.

  • "Raed Tihs." Forthcoming in Watershed.

Kurt writing solo:

  • "Nature Boy." Michiana Creative Arts Review (1977): 16-17.

  • "When the Muse Has Gone." The Villager 50.6 (March 1978): 9, 17-19.

  • "Spawning." The Roanoke Review 18.1 (Fall 1991): 8-17.

  • "Lawrence." City Magazine (April 1994): 19, 25.

  • "Artiste." The Front Range Review (Spring 2004): 66-80.

  • "Culture Clash." descant 43 (2004): 115-126.

    • Winner, 2004 Frank O’Connor Award for Short Fiction.

  • "Official Friend." The William and Mary Review 43 (2005): 38-54.

  • "Calling It Off." Forthcoming in The Red Cedar Review.

David writing solo:

  • "The Man Who Bled Tartar Sauce." The Pinehurst Journal (Spring 1992): 17-18.

  • "Brothers Arm-in-Arm." Innisfree Magazine #83, 12.4 (1993): 8.

  • "Stanczak’s Salon." Salon Arts Magazine #5 (March/April 1995): 13-14.

  • "Headlights." Paragraph: A Magazine of Paragraphs #14, 5.2 (Summer 1995): 24.

  • "The Pick-Up Game: Short Fiction for the Modern Man." Tamaqua 5.2 (Fall 1995): 61-82.

  • "Ice Cream Headache." Sou’wester 25.2 (Spring 1997): 67-71.

    • Reprinted in Sou’wester: Fortieth Anniversary Retrospective Issue 28.2 (Spring 2000): 122-126.

  • "An Adulterous ABC: An Alphabet Primer for Adults." Exquisite Corpse: A Journal of Letters and Life #14, <http://www.corpse.org/issue_14/poetick_kulchur/rachels.html>.

  • "Express Lane." The American Drivel Review 2.1 (Summer 2005): 49.