Jordan Smith

Publications

Poems in Poetry, The Paris Review, and Salmagundi.
Stories in American Short Fiction and Big Fiction.
Memoir in Numero Cinq.

Recent Publications:

Two groups of three poems in Live Encounters, "Another Old Movie," (Sept 2024) and "The Ghost in the Mix Tape," (Nov-Dec 2024).

An essay about old-time music, depression, Bob Dylan, and history and memory, "Sugar in the Gourd," in Air/Light (Summer 2024).

New poems, “Drafts” and “Drone,” in Live Encounters Dec. 2022. In Oct 2022, Live Encounters published “Jordan Smith--Mystic in a Red Flannel Shirt,” an overview of his work by poet Lynn Strongin. “Slaughterama,” Smith’s discussion of work by poet and essayist, Anna Journey, appeared in the Fall 2022 issue of Nine Mile.

Newest chapbook, Cold Night/Long Dog, Ambidextrous Bloodhound Press, 2022.

An essay about music, family, mental illness, memory, and John Clare, "My Grandmother's Mandolin," in Live Encounters: Poetry and Writing, Feb. 2022.

New poems in Air/Light : "Good Morning" and "Wrong Question" (Summer 2021).

Air/Light interview podcast with alumna Diane Mehta and Jordan Smith

Little Black Train, winner of the 2019 Three Mile Harbor Press Poetry Prize, published 2020.

A guest editorial, "Interiors," and five poems in Live Encounters: Poetry & Writing, Jan. 2020

A story, "The President's Garden," in The Write Launch

"Hat & Key" series of broadsides with Walter Hatke, featured in Union alumni magazine; two poems for Walt's show "What Came Home" in Kelly Adirondack Center exhibit. Common Spirits, a special hand-stitched and bound edition of works from the “Hat-Key” and “What Came Home” collaborations has been released by fourColor Inc. of Niantic, Conn (2023).

Brief reviews of John Montague’s Selected Poems and Seamus Heaney’s 100 Poems for The Antioch Review; full reviews of Tom Ewing’s Bill Monroe: The Life and Music of the Blue Grass Man and Lewis M. Stern’s Tommy Thompson: New-Timey String Band Musician for The Old Time Herald. Review of Gerald Dawe’s “The Last Peacock" in The New Hibernia Review.

Collections of poetry:

Little Black Train (3 Mile Harbor Press)

Clare’s Empire (Hydroelectric Press)
The Light in the Film (University of Tampa Press)
The Names of Things Are Leaving (University of Tampa Press)
An Apology for Loving the Old Hymns (Princeton University Press)
Lucky Seven (Wesleyan University Press)
The Household of Continuance (Copper Beech Press)

The Flute Is Zero (Right Hand Pointing)
For Appearances (University of Tampa Press) won the Tampa Review Prize in Poetry