My books include the collection
Settling for Beauty (Cherry Grove Collections,
www.cherry-grove.com/smith.html), my first collection,
The Hypothetical Landscape (Quarterly Review of Literature Poetry Series), and the edited anthology
Northern Music: Poems About and Inspired by Glenn Gould (John Gordon Burke, Publisher). My children’s book
The Best Mariachi in the World is forthcoming from Raven Tree Press (
www.raventreepress.com) in September 2008. My poems have received three Pushcart nominations, and my essays and reviews have appeared in
American Book Review,
Grist and Pleiades. My literary and crime fiction has appeared in a variety of publications, including
Orchid and
Thug Lit (www.thuglit.com) and will appear in the forthcoming anthology
Hardcore Hardboiled. My poems have been anthologized in the collections
In a Fine Frenzy: Poets Respond to Shakespeare (University of Iowa Press),
Poetic Voices without Borders (Gival Press), and
Illuminations: Expressions of the Personal Spiritual Experience (Ten Speed Press). Among widely circulating publications, my poem "Aubade" appeared in the September-October 2006 issue of
The Bark. My op-ed "Pop Viagra and Save a Rhino" appeared in the
Los Angeles Times in May of 2006.
Educated at American University in Washington, DC, the University of Chicago, the University of Houston Creative Writing Program and Carleton University in Ontario, I have also received scholarships to attend the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference and the Bucknell University Seminar for Younger Poets. I was additionally granted a 2007 Fellowship in Poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts.
I live with my wife and rescue dog in Washington, DC, and I am available for lectures, readings and signings.
Links to my work in various genres can be found below.
Poetry
http:/
/thepedestalmagazine.com/Secure/content/cb.asp?cbid=3667
http://www.versedaily.org/2005/thedrownedfish.shtml
http://hissquarterly.thehiss.net/archives/ab.jdsmith.html
http://authormark.com/article_678.shtml
http://www.branchesquarterly.com/1.4/SmithBennett.htm
http://www.washwriter.org/prizes_poetry.html
Essays
http://www.cmsu.edu/englphil/pleiades/Dowsing.html
http://info.nwmissouri.edu/~m500025/laurel/smithnews.html
http://www.southernct.edu/projects/ctreview/essays/fall98essays/smith.htm
http://www.stationaery.com/5/obituaries.html
http://www.litline.org/ABR/PDF/Volume20/smith.pdf
Op-eds
http://www.dcexaminer.com/articles/2005/02/10/opinion/op-ed/01aadopednewt.txt
http://www.dcexaminer.com/articles/2005/02/16/opinion/op-ed/01aaadgenerationedit.txt
Literary Fiction, Humor and Miscellaneous
http://www.corpse.org/issue_12/money_talk/jd_smith.html
http://www.ducts.org/12_04/html/fiction/smith.htm
http://www.papotage.com/may03/jd.html
http://www.stationaery.com/3/counsel.html
http://trampolinehouse.com/0202/print/JDSmith_TrampHouse0202.pdf
Crime Fiction
http://www.thuglit.com/zine/time.pdf
