Brad's first legit publication was a poem in The Newport Review in 1983. Other Eighties credits include The Cresset and HIS.

In 1995, while at Vermont College of Fine Art, a poem won an AWP Intro Journal Award and was published in Puerto del Sol. Between 1995 and 2000, his poems appeared in Poetry, The Paris Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Tar River Poetry, Image, Anglican Theological Review, the eleventh MUSE, Potato Eyes, and Small Pond. In 1997 and 1998, he won honorable mention in The Icarus Literary Competition.

Since 2000, Brad's credits have included The Paris Review, DoubleTake, Tar River Poetry, Image, Anglican Theological Review, Wind, Brilliant Corners, Ascent, Louisville Review, Main Street Rag, City Works, Christianity & Literature, and Rock & Sling. In the spring of 2005, his chapbook, SHORT LIST OF WONDERS, won the Sunken Garden Poetry Prize (judge: Dick Allen), and Antrim House published his first book, THOUGH WAR BREAK OUT. Over the next three years, Antrim published three more books: SONG OF THE DRUNKARDS, NO VILE THING, and LIKE THOSE WHO DREAM.

Compassionate, praiseful, confident, but never sentimental or dogmatic, these poems draw me back for continual searching, discoveries and re-readings.

- Dick Allen

Brad Davis writes the kind of poem I value most: one that is spoken straight from an open, compassionate heart and shot through with pure intelligence, acerbic wit, and self-displacement.

- Gray Jacobik

These are poems ... with a cosmopolitan tongue and formal sense acutely measured against the expansive possibilities of intellect and spirit. And he can be awfully funny.

- Clare Rossini

Brad Davis' poems are modest and intense at the same time - in every way a comfort, a reminder, and a prod.

- Mary Oliver

Davis writes in the tradition of Herbert and Hopkins: which is to say his subject is how matters of spiritual crisis can alchemize - through empathy and a fastidious attention to craft - first into matters of devotion, and ultimately into matters of revelation.

- David Wojahn