Biography rod smith

American poet, editor and publisher (born 1962)

For the Southern poet Rod Smith, see R. T. Smith.

For other people named Rod Smith, see Rod Smith (disambiguation).

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

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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.^[1][2] Smith is co-editor of The Selected Letters of Robert Creeley, along with Kaplan Harris and Peter Baker (University of California Press, 2014).^[1]

Publishing and the DC poetry community

In 1984, along with Wayn