William Virgil Davis’s most recent book of poetry is Dismantlements of Silence: Poems Selected and New (2015). He has published five other books of poetry: The Bones Poems; Landscape and Journey, which won the New Criterion Poetry Prize and the Helen C. Smith Memorial Award for Poetry; Winter Light; The Dark Hours, which won the Calliope Press Chapbook Prize; One Way to Reconstruct the Scene, which won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize. His poems have appeared in most of the major periodicals, in the UK and internationally, including Agenda, The Atlantic Monthly, The Gettysburg Review, The Georgia Review, The Harvard Review, The Hopkins Review, The Hudson Review, Literary Imagination, The Malahat Review, The Nation, The New Criterion, PN Review, Poetry, Raritan, The Sewanee Review, Southwest Review, The Southern Review, TriQuarterly, and The Yale Review, among many others.

William Virgil Davis's work featured in Stand Magazine comprises two contributions of poetry, over a period of five years.