Thomas R. Smith (poet), Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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Date of Birth: 16-Jan-1948
Place of Birth: Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, United States
Profession: poet
Zodiac Sign: Capricorn 
About Thomas R. Smith (poet)
- Thomas R.
- Smith (born January 16, 1948) is an American poet, essayist, teacher and editor.
- His work has appeared in numerous anthologies and journals in the U.S.
- and internationally.
- His poems have been featured on The Writer's Almanac, a syndicated national public radio program and podcast hosted by Garrison Keillor.
- His work was also selected for The Best American Poetry 1999, edited by poet Robert Bly, and in former U.S.
- Poet Laureate Ted Kooser's syndicated newspaper column, American Life in Poetry.Smith has described his own work as drawing from the nature and landscape of his home in Wisconsin.
- In a review of Smith's Kinnickinic, fellow poet and critic B.J.
- Best wrote, "Smith's best poems use natural life to instruct and inspire us, who are all too often removed from the natural landscape." Robert Bly described Smith as "a high-spirited poetry horse riding over the hills of emotion." Poet Ralphe Murre praised Smith's use of earthly language, void of pretense but still playful and inventive: "At no time does he allow some device or conceit to get in the way of the poem, or his readers’ access to it.
- This is the work of a mature artist, certain of his craft; simply, effectively, and honestly allowing us in."Smith has fourteen books and chapbooks of his poetry published, and his fifteenth, Windy Day at Kabekona: New and Selected Prose Poems, is due for publication in 2018.
- He has also edited various books, including three on the subject of fellow poet Robert Bly.
- His poetry criticism has been published in the St.
- Paul Pioneer Press, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, Great River Review, Ruminator Review, and in other periodicals. Smith lives in River Falls, Wisconsin with his wife Krista Spieler.
- He teaches poetry at the Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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