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. 

References