Bruce Smith (poet)

Bruce Smith at 2012 Lannan Series, Georgetown University

Bruce Smith (born 1946) is an American poet.

Life

Smith was born and raised in Philadelphia. He has since taught at the University of Alabama, and now teaches at Syracuse University.^[1][2] He has been a co-editor of the Graham House Review and a contributing editor of Born Magazine.^[3]

Awards

• “Discovery”/The Nation Award winner
• 2000 Guggenheim Fellowship
• National Endowment for the Arts grant
• Massachusetts Foundation for the Arts grant
• 1984 National Poetry Series Selection, for Silver and Information
• National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize finalist for The Other Lover
• National Book Award finalist for Devotions
• 2012 William Carlos Williams Award presented by the Poetry Society of America

Collections

• The Common Wages. Sheep Meadow Press. 1983. ISBN 978-0-935296-42-6. 
• Silver and Information. University of Georgia Press. December 1985. ISBN 978-0-8203-0762-6. 
• Mercy Seat. University of Chicago Press. 1994. ISBN 978-0-226-76405-4. 
• The Other Lover. University of Chicago Press. 2000. ISBN 978-0-226-76408-5. 
• Songs for Two Voices. University of Chicago Press. April 2005. ISBN 978-0-226-76455-9. 
• Devotions. University of Chicago Press. April 15, 2011. ISBN 978-0226764351. 

Anthologies

• Yusef Komunyakaa, David Lehman, eds. (2003). The Best American Poetry 2003. Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-0-7432-0388-3. 
• Lyn Hejinian, David Lehman, eds. (2004). "Song of the Ransom of the Dark". The best American poetry, 2004. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-0-7432-5757-2. 
• 2009 Pushcart Prize anthology

References

Further reading

• Burt, Stephen (August 4, 2011). "Poetry for Tough Guys". The New York Times.  Review of Devotions (2011).

External links

• "Devotion: The Burnt-Over District", Poetry (January 2008)
• "Devotion: The Garment District", Poetry (January 2008)
• "Obbligato", Poetry (April 2004)
• "The Game", The New Yorker, September 7, 2009
• "Something of Consolation", AGNI 56, 2002
• "Still", Greensboro Review, 2007
• "Silver and Information", Poetry Foundation
• "Letter to T.", Ploughshares, Winter 1998-99
• "Jelly 292 ", Ploughshares, Winter 1998-99
• "Airless ", Ploughshares, Fall 2001