Arthur Smith

Arthur Smith’s first book of poems, Elegy on Independence Day, was awarded the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize (University of Pitt), selected by the Poetry Society of America to receive the Norma Farber First Book Award, and was followed by Orders of Affection and The Late World (2002). Recipient of a "Discovery"/The Nation Award, an NEA Fellowship, and two Pushcart Prizes, he was selected as a Fellow in Poetry for the 1987 Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference. He is a Professor of English at the University of Tennessee.

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