Ron Smith
Ron Smith has served as Poet Laureate of Virginia since 2014. A native of Savannah, he is writer-in-residence at St. Christopher's School, edits poetry for Aethlon: The Journal of Sports Literature and has received the Theodore Roethke Prize and the Guy Owen Prize. The University of Florida Press published his Running Again in Hollywood Cemetery, and more recently LSU has published Moon Road: Poems 1986-2005 (2007) and Its Ghostly Workshop (2013). The Humility of the Brutes is forthcoming.
Reading List
What a Rush
to see you there in the sun, shining with your best smile, not in fact gone forever, waving off my question, delighted with my delight, sitting bony on my lap, which you would never have done in life, my proper …