Carol V. Davis: “Poetry comes when I make room in my life for it. The language, sound, rhythms, stories in poetry sustain me. When I am living in Russia, the poems seem to come more easily. Perhaps that is because, even after having lived there many times, I still feel the outsider, which is often the role of the poet in any society.” (web)
Carol V. Davis: “I have been exploring faith and doubt and also superstition in my poetry. Judaism is complicated as it’s also a culture, a history, an identity. I have gone in and out of religious observance, but never lost my Jewish identity. The past some years I have returned to belief and, as a result, observance. All I can say is that it has taken on a central core to my being and has to do with a dialog with something greater than people, with G-d, if you will.”