OPINION

OLD NEWS: Remember about C.T. Davis, Arkansas’ first poet laureate? No? Well, why not?

October 29, 2023 at 4:30 p.m.

by Celia Storey

Photo of C.T. Davis from the Oct. 18, 1923, Arkansas Gazette report that the Palace theater would honor Davis by giving away 10 copies of his collection of poems each day Oct. 18, 19 and 20. And headlines from Page 1 of the Oct. 1, 1923, Gazette. (Democrat-Gazette archives)
Photo of C.T. Davis from the Oct. 18, 1923, Arkansas Gazette report that the Palace theater would honor Davis by giving away 10 copies of his collection of poems each day Oct. 18, 19 and 20. And headlines from Page 1 of the Oct. 1, 1923, Gazette. (Democrat-Gazette archives)


1923 was quite the year for C.T. Davis, poet and editorial paragrapher of the Arkansas Gazette.

First, Frank P. Davis of Enid, Okla., not a close relative, picked two of C.T.'s

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