Arthur Smith

Arthur Smith reading at Rock Point Books, Chattanooga, TN, Fall 2009
Arthur Smith's first book of poems, Elegy on Independence Day (1 985), was awarded the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize & selected by the Poetry Society of America to receive the Norma Farber First Book Award. His second and third books of poems, Orders of Affection (1996) and The Late World (2002), were both published by Carnegie Mellon University Press. His work has been honored with a "Discovery"/ The Nation Award, an NEA fellowship, and two Pushcart Prizes. In 1987 he was the Theodore Morrison Fellow in poetry at the Bread Loaf Writer's Conference. He is an English professor at UT Knoxville and his poems have appeared in numerous journals including The Nation, The New Yorker, Poetry, The Southern Review, Southern Poetry Review, The Kenyon Review, and North American Review.

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