Bruce Smith (poet)

Bruce Smith (born 1946) is an American poet and academic.

Life[]

Smith was born and raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.^[1]

He earned an M.A. at Bucknell University.^[1]

He has been a co-editor of the Graham House Review and a contributing editor of Born Magazine.

His poetry has been published in The Best American Poetry 2003 and 2004, The New Yorker, The Nation, The New Republic, The Paris Review, The Partisan Review, Kenyon Review, Poetry, and American Poetry Review. Essays and reviews by him have appeared in Harvard Review, Boston Review, and Newsday.^[1]

The Common Wages: Poems. New York: Sheep Meadow Press, 1983. ISBN 978-0-935296-42-6
Silver and Informtion: Poems. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1985. ISBN 978-0-8203-0762-6
Mercy Seat. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994. ISBN 978-0-226-76405-4
Songs for Two Voices. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. ISBN 978-0-226-76455-9
The Other Lover. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. ISBN 978-0-226-76408-5
Devotions. Chicago & London: University of Chicago Press, 2011. ISBN 978-0-226-76435-1

Except where noted, bibliographical information courtesy WorldCat.^[2]

Yusef Komunyakaa, David Lehman, ed (2003). The Best American Poetry 2003. Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-0-7432-0388-3.
The Best American Poetry 2004 (edited by Lyn Hejinian & David Lehman). New York: Simon & Schuster, 2004. ISBN 978-0-7432-5757-2
2009 Pushcart Prize anthology

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 ^1.3 Bruce Smith, Faculty of English, Syracuse University. Web, Feb. 22, 2015.
↑ Search results = au:Bruce Smith 1946, WorldCat, OCLC Online Computer Library Center Inc. Web, Feb. 22, 2015.