Rod Smith

Rod Smith (born 1962) is an American poet, editor and publisher.

Life He was born in Gallipolis, Ohio. He grew up in Northern Virginia and moved to Washington, D.C., in 1987. Smith has authored several collections of poetry, including In Memory of My Theories, Protective Immediacy, and Music or Honesty. He has taught creative writing at George Mason University where he is finishing his MFA. Smith currently teaches Cultural Studies at Towson University, and was a visiting writer at the Iowa Writers' Workshop in the Spring of 2010. Smith is co-editor of The Selected Letters of Robert Creeley, along with Kaplan Harris and Peter Baker (University of California Press, 2014). While at Bick's and as a founding curator with Buck Downs, Joe Ross, and Sylvana Straw of the DCAC "In Your Ear" series he organized readings for Charles Bernstein, Cage, Kevin Davies, Carolyn Forche, Bob Perelman, Tom Raworth, Leslie Scalapino, Diane Ward, and others.

Books

Poetry "Touché", (Wave Books, 2015) Deed, (Iowa City, IA: University of Iowa Press, 2007) Fear the Sky, (narrow house, 2005) Music or Honesty, (New York: Roof Books, 2003). Poèmes de l'araignée, (Bordeaux, France: Un bureau sur l'atlantique, 2003). The Good House (New York: Spectacular Books, 2001) The New Mannerist Tricycle - with Lisa Jarnot & Bill Luoma (Philadelphia: Beautiful Swimmer, 2000) Protective Immediacy (New York: Roof, 1999) The Lack (love poems, targets, flags...) (Elmwood, CT.: Abacus, 1997). In Memory of My Theories (Oakland: O Books, 1996) A Grammar Manikan, Object 5: featuring Rod Smith, (New York, NY: Object, 1995). The Boy Poems, (Washington, DC: Buck Downs Books, 1994).

in Anthologies "A Tract," in "Telling It Slant: Avant-Garde Poetics of the 1990s", ed Mark Wallace and Steven Marks, (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2002). Four poems from In Memory of My Theories and Protective Immediacy, in Antologija novije americke poezije, ed. Dubravka Djuric et al. (Serbia: Oktoih, 2001). "Ted's Head," in 100 Days, ed. Andrea Brady and Keston Sutherland, (Cambridge, UK: Barque Press, 2001). “4 poems from In Memory of My Theories,” in New (American) Poetry, ed. Lisa Jarnot, Leonard Schwartz, and Chris Stroffolino, (Hoboken, NJ: Talisman House, 1997). "from CIA Sentences," in A Poetics of Criticism, ed. Juliana Spahr, Mark Wallace, Kristen Prevallet, and Pam Rehm, (Buffalo: Leave Books, 1994). “XCII (cinder-sifter)” and poetics statement, in o blek 12: Writing from the New Coast, ed. Peter Gizzi, Connell McGrath, and Juliana Spahr, (Stockbridge: The Garlic Press,1993).