Arthur Smith is an American poet whose work has appeared in The New Yorker, "The Georgia Review," "Northwest Review," "Cutthroat: A Journal of the Arts," "Crazyhorse," "Southern Poetry Review," Hunger Mountain, and The Nation. He is a professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Tennessee, and he lives in Knoxville, Tennessee with his three Keeshonden.
1987 Pushcart Prize1986 Pushcart Prize1985 Norma Farber First Book Award, Poetry Society of America1984 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize1981 Discovery/The Nation, the Joan Leiman Jacobson Poetry Prize "ARS POETICA", EnskymentElegy for Independence Day. University of Pittsburgh Press. 1985. ISBN 978-0-8229-3513-1. Orders of Affection: Poems. Carnegie Mellon University Press. 1996. ISBN 978-0-88748-223-6. The Late World: Poems. Carnegie Mellon University Press. 2002. ISBN 978-0-88748-368-4. The Fortunate Era: Poems. Carnegie Mellon University Press. 2013. ISBN 978-0-88748-567-1. The New Bread Loaf Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry, 1999.Don Johnson, ed. (1991). Hummers, Knucklers, and Slow Curves: Contemporary Baseball Poems. University of Illinois Press. ISBN 978-0-252-06183-7. 