Jordan F. Smith (born September 11, 1954) is an American poet and professor at Union College in Schenectady, New York. [1]

Jordan Smith is the author of seven collections of poetry: An Apology for Loving the Old Hymns (Princeton University Press, 1982); Lucky Seven (Wesleyan University Press, 1988); The Household of Continuance (Copper Beech Press, 1992); For Appearances (University of Tampa Press, Tampa Review Poetry Prize, 2002); The Names of Things Are Leaving ...

Jan 30, 2025 · Jordan Smith is the author of eight full-length books of poems, most recently Little Black Train, winner of the Three Mile Harbor Press Prize and Clare’s Empire, a fantasia on the life and work of John Clare from The Hydroelectric Press, as well as several chapbooks, including Cold Night, Long Dog from Ambidextrous Bloodhound Press. The ...

The homepage for Jordan A. Y. Smith, and all creative and academic activities (poetry, translation, music projects, teaching, research, etc.)

Jordan Smith (born September 11, 1954) is an American poet and professor at Union College in Schenectady, New York.

Creative Writing, Contemporary American Poetry, American Literature. Poems in Poetry, The Paris Review, and Salmagundi. Stories in American Short Fiction and Big Fiction. Memoir in Numero Cinq. Recent Publications: Two groups of three poems in Live Encounters, "Another Old Movie," (Sept 2024) and "The Ghost in the Mix Tape," (Nov-Dec 2024).

Jordan Smith is the author of seven full-length collections of poetry, most recently "Clare's Empire" (published as a digital edition by The Hydroelectric Press), a fantasia on the life and work of English poet, John Clare, which deals with class and environment, poetry and madness, economy and profligacy, beauty and vulgarity.

Jordan A. Y. Smith writes poetry and comic theater and has translated poetry by Yoshimasu Gozo (for Poetry Review, Tokyo Poetry Journal), Mizuta Noriko (The Road Home 2015; Sea of Blue Algae, 2016), Nomura Kiwao, Misumi Mizuki, Fuzuki Yumi, and Usami Kohji, and prose fiction from Alberto Fuguet and Fernando Iwasaki. He is currently Associate ...

I look down at my boots and their straps and see the sludge slathered on the tongue and smeared on the deteriorating souls. I look down and I ask myself, if they’ll make it through this winter.

I am me I am not you. I am me. I am not he and I am not she. I am Jordan. I am me. I am not a welcome mat. You can’t just walk all over...