Compassion Through the Arts - Arts Grant Committee

ROBIN DAVIDSON

Houston’s second Poet Laureate (2015–2017), Robin Davidson is the author of three poetry collections. She is the recipient of a Fulbright professorship (Poland) and an NEA translation fellowship, and with Ewa Elżbieta Nowakowska, is co-translator of two volumes of Ewa Lipska’s poems from the Polish—most recently, Dear Ms. Schubert (Princeton University Press, 2021). 

She was inducted into the Texas Institute of Letters in 2019 and teaches literature and creative writing as professor emeritus of English for the University of Houston-Downtown. 

Davidson believes in the transformative power of the arts to deepen our experience of human empathy and compassion, both personally and culturally.