Newton Smith. Courtesy North Carolina Writers' Network-West's Mountain Writers & Poets.
Newton Smith is an American poet and academic.
Life[]
Smith began his post-secondary education at Georgia Tech, but switched to the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill to study poetry. He served for 3 years in the U.S. Army as a Russian linguist, then returned to UNC and earned a Ph.D.[1]
Smith has retired from the University of Western Carolina,[1] where he taught professional writing and literature, and served for a time as faculty chair.[2] He has taught poetry to a wide range of writers, from second grade to retirees as well as undergraduates and graduate students.[1]
Beginning in the 1970s, he published widely in literary magazines, including Southern Poetry Review, Carolina Quarterly, Ann Arbor Review, and others.[1]
He was a founding editor (with William Matthews and Russell Banks) of literary magazine Lillabulero; he has also been a staff writer for Asheville Poetry Review and president of the Appalachian Writer’s Association.[2]
Publications[]
- Camino Poems: Reflections on the way; from St. Jean Pied-de-Port to Finisterre. Argura Press, 2016.[3]
See also[]
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Newton Smith featured at Coffee with the Poets and Writers in Hayesville, NC, North Carolina Writers' Network-West's Mountain Writers & Poets, November 9, 2016. Web, Aug. 1, 2018.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Newton Smith, Asheville Poetry Review. Web, Aug. 1, 2018.
- ↑ Camino Poems: Reflections on the Way From St. Jean Pied-de-Port to Finisterre, Amazon.com. Web, Aug. 1, 2018.
External links[]
- Poems
- Prose
- Newton Smith in the Asheville Poetry Review
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