Arthur Smith (American poet)
Arthur Smith is an American poet whose work has appeared in The New Yorker, "The Georgia Review," "Northwest Review," "Cutthroat: A Journal of the Arts," "Crazyhorse," "Southern Poetry Review," Hunger Mountain,[1] and The Nation.[2] He is a professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Tennessee, and he lives in Knoxville, Tennessee with his three Keeshonden.
Awards
- 1987 Pushcart Prize
- 1986 Pushcart Prize
- 1985 Norma Farber First Book Award, Poetry Society of America
- 1984 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize
- 1981 Discovery/The Nation, the Joan Leiman Jacobson Poetry Prize [3]
Works
- "ARS POETICA", Enskyment[4]
- Elegy for Independence Day. University of Pittsburgh Press. 1985. ISBN 978-0-8229-3513-1.
- Orders of Affection: Poems. Carnegie Mellon University Press. 1996. ISBN 978-0-88748-223-6.
- The Late World: Poems. Carnegie Mellon University Press. 2002. ISBN 978-0-88748-368-4.
- The Fortunate Era: Poems. Carnegie Mellon University Press. 2013. ISBN 978-0-88748-567-1.
Anthology
- The New Bread Loaf Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry, 1999.
- Don Johnson, ed. (1991). Hummers, Knucklers, and Slow Curves: Contemporary Baseball Poems. University of Illinois Press. ISBN 978-0-252-06183-7.