Eliott Coleman Professor of Poetry (2002-present)
Chairman, The Writing Seminars (2005-present)
Office address
The Writing Seminars
Johns Hopkins University
3400 N. Charles Street
Baltimore, MD 21218
(410) 516-3409
davesmith@ihu.edu
Home Address
14 East Bishop's Rd
Baltimore, MD 21218
(410) 366-7166
distrucker2@cs.com
Previous positions
1998-2002: Editor, The Southern Review & Boyd Professor of English, Louisiana State University
1997-1998: Hopkins P. Breazeale Professor of English, Louisiana State University
1990-1997: Professor of English, Louisiana State University Editor, The Southern Review
1982-1990: Professor of English, Virginia Commonwealth University
1981-1982: Associate Professor of English & Director of Creative Writing, University of Florida
1980-1981: Visiting Professor of English, SUNY-Binghamton (NY)
1978-1981: Associate Professor of English & Director of Creative Writing, University of Utah
1976-1978: Assistant Professor of English & Director of Creative Writing, University of Utah
1975-1976: Teaching Assistant, English, Ohio University
1974-1975: Assistant Professor of English, Cottey College (MO)
1973-1974: Instructor, English, Western Michigan University
1972-1973: Teaching Assistant, English, Ohio University
1969-1973: Active Duty, United States Air Force (SSGT)
1967-1969: Teaching Assistant, English, Southern Illinois University
1965-1965: Teacher/Coach, Poquoson H.S., Poquoson, VA.
Other teaching experience
1996: Elliston Professor of Poetry, University of Cincinnatti
1981-1987: Bennington Summer MFA program, Bennington College
Other editorial experience
1995-present: Editor, The Southern Messenger Poetry Series, LSU
1990-1991: Editor, The New Virginia Review
1986-1987: Editor, The New Virginia Review
1978-1988: Editor, The University of Utah Poets Series
1978-1980: Poetry Editor, The Rocky Mount Review, ASU
1970-1977: Founder and Editor of Back Door
Degrees
1965, BA., English, University of Virginia
1969, MA., English, Southern Ill. University
1976, PhD., Ohio University
Publications
Essays, reviews, poems, and interviews in many journals and books, including The American Poetry Review, Antaeus, Aperture, The Atlantic, Black Warrior Review, Connecticut Review, Contemporary Literature, Double Take, Five Points, Georgia Review, Hudson Review, Iowa Review, Kenyon Review, Minnesota Review, The Nation, New Republic, The New Yorker, The New York Times Book Review, New England Review, The North American Review, The Northwest Review, Ontario Review, Partisan Review, Paris Review, Poetry, Poetry Ireland, Poetry Northwest, Quarterly West, Sewanee Review, Shenandoah, Southern Humanities Review, Southern Review, Southern Poetry Review, Southwest Review, TriQuarterly,The Virginia Quarterly Review, Washington Post Magazine, Washington Post Book Review, Yale Review, etc.
Books
Hunting Men: Reflections on a Life in Poetry. (Baton Rouge, La: LSU Press) 2006.
Little Boats, Unsalvaged, Poems 1992-2004. (Baton Rouge, La: LSU Press) 2005.
The Wick of Memory: New and Selected Poems 1970-2000. (Baton Rouge, La: LSU Press), 2000.
Tremble. (Tuscaloosa, Alabama: The Black Warrior Review Chapbook Series),1996.
Floating on Solitude: Three Books of Poems. (Urbana, Illinois: University of Illinois Press), 1996.
Fate's Kite: Poems 1991-1995. (Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press), 1995.
Night Pleasures: New and Selected Poems. (Newcastle, England: Bloodaxe Books, Ltd),1992.
The Essential Poe. (New York: ECCO Press),1991.
Cuba Night. (New York: William Morrow and Co.), February, 1990.
The Roundhouse Voices: Selected and New Poems. (New York: Harper and Row), 1985.
Local Assays: On Contemporary American Poetry. (Urbana, III: University of Illinois Press), 1985.
The Morrow Anthology of Younger American Poets. ed. (NY: William Morrow & Co.), 1985.
Gray Soldiers. (Winston-Salem, NC: Stuart Wright), 1984.
Southern Delights. (Athens, Ob: Croissant & Co., Ltd.), 1984.
In the House of the Judge. (New York: Harper and Row), 1983.
The Pure Clear Word: Essays on the Poetry of James Wright. ed. Intr.(Urbana, 11: U Illinois Press), 1982.
Onliness. (Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press), 1981.
Homage to Edgar Allan Poe. (Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press), 1981.
Dream Flights. (Urbana, Illinois: University of Illinois Press), 1981.
Blue Spruce. (Syracuse. NY: Tamarack Press), 1981.
Goshawk. Antelope. (Urbana, Illinois: University of Illinois Press), 1979.
Cumberland Station. (Urbana, Illinois: University of Illinois Press), 1977.
The Fisherman's Whore. (Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press), 1974,1989.
Mean Rufus Throw Down. (Fredonia, NY: Basilisk Press), 1973.
Bull Island. (Poquoson, Virginia: Back Door Press), 1970.
Field of specialization
Poetry
American literature
Modern and contemporary literature
Military Service
1969-1972: USAF, Staff Sergeant, Accounting & Finance, Langly AFB
Awards and fellowships
2004: Phi Beta Kappa Poem, #226, Harvard University
2000: Dictionary of Literary Biography, "Book of the Year in Poetry"
1998: Residence at Villa Serbelloni, Bellagio, Rockefeller Foundation
1997: Pushcart Prize in Poetry1996: Elliston Professorship of Poetry, University of Cincinnati
1996: Inducted into Fellowship of Southern Writers
1994: Poetry International Guest, London
1992: Faenza Arts Festival Guest, Faenza, Italy
1991: Poetry International Guest, Rotterdam
1990: Poet Laureate (lifetime) of Portsmouth, Virginia
1988: Virginia Poetry Prize
1987-1989: Lyndhurst Fellowship
1987: Dintinguishe University Scholoar, VCU
1983: Alumni of Merit PRixe, Ohio Univ
1982: Neational Endowment for the ARts Fellowship in Poetry"
1982: Guggenheim Fellowship in Poetry
1981: Runner-up, Pulitzer Prize in Poetry
1980: Prairie Schooner Poetry Prize
1980: Portland Review Poetry prize
1980: American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters Award
1979: Pushcart Poetry Prize Anthology
1979: Runner-up for Pulitzer prize in Poetry
1979: David P. Gardner Research Award, University of Utah
1976: Borestone Mountain Poetry Award
1975: National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry
1975: Atherton Fellowship, Bread Loaf Writers Conference
1973: Kansas Ouarterly Poetry Prize
1971: Miscellany Fiction prize, 1971 |
