American Studies
Jordan Smith
Job Title
Edward Everett Hale Jr., Professor of English
Director of Creative Writing Minor
Pronouns
He/him/his
Research interests
Creative Writing, Contemporary American Poetry, American Literature.
Publications
Recent Publications (by year):
2025
"No Expectations" and "The Great Uncertainty," Live Encounters, September 2025.
Essay, "These Days" in Vox Populi, August 8, 2025.
Foreword to David Rigsbee, The Sign of the Mermaid, a digital collection of elegies for Rigsbee's brother. (Rigsbee was Smith's undergraduate workshop teacher at Hamilton College.)
An essay on reading and friendship, "Across the Mountains and Waters," and a companion poem, "The World's Worst Taoist," in Live Encounters Jan. 2025.
"Jordan Smith: Two Poems" in Cultural Daily, Jan. 31, 2025. "The Amateur of Consciousness" and "Trillium."
2024
"After Wei Yung-wu," published in Nine Mile Magazine in November 2024.
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).
2023
"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).
2022
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.
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.
2021
New poems in Air/Light : "Good Morning" and "Wrong Question" (Summer 2021).
Air/Light interview podcast with alumna Diane Mehta and Jordan Smith
2020
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
Recent Reviews
John Montague’s Selected Poems and Seamus Heaney’s 100 Poems for The Antioch Review.
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.
Gerald Dawe’s “The Last Peacock" in The New Hibernia Review.
Poetry Collections:
Little Black Train (3 Mile Harbor Press)
Chapbook, Cold Night/Long Dog (Ambidextrous Bloodhound 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
Earlier publication venues:
Poems in Poetry, The Paris Review, and Salmagundi.
Stories in American Short Fiction and Big Fiction.
Memoir in Numero Cinq.
Additional media
Distinctions
The collection Little Black Train won the 3 Mile Harbor Press Poetry Prize and Book Award.
The chapbook Three Grange Halls was co-winner of the Swan Scythe Press award.
Fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Ingram Merrill Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Academic credentials
B.A., Empire State College; M.A., Johns Hopkins University; M.F.A., The University of Iowa
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