Dr. James Smith Jr

Co-Editor of Southern Poetry Review
Gamble Hall 232
912.344.3196
James.Smith@armstrong.edu




Education
Ph.D., Vanderbilt University
M.A., Vanderbilt University
B.A., Berry College
 
Recent Publications
Co-Editor, Southern Poetry Review, 2002-present.
 
Editor, Don't Leave Hungry: Fifty Years of Southern Poetry Review. University
            of Arkansas Press, 2009.
 
Poems:
"The Boathouse." Prairie Schooner. 84.1 (Spring 2010), 98.
"Making the Bed." Shenandoah. 59.1 (Spring/Summer 2009), 166-167.
"Mandelshtam's Wonderful Widow." Shenandoah. 59.1 (Spring/Summer 2009): 168-169.
"Her Reverie During Arpeggios." AshevillePoetry Review. 16.1 (2009), 162.
"The Maps." Poet Lore. 104:1/2 (Spring/Summer 2009), 22.
 “To a Stylist.” Tar RiverPoetry. 45:1 (Fall 2005), 15-16.
 “Hen.” Agni (online). 2004 issue. www.bu.edu/agni
 “The Captive.” NebraskaReview. 30.2 (Summer 2002), 81.
 “Atmospheric Conditions.” ConnecticutReview. XXIII.2 (Fall 2001), 180-181.
 “Harm’s Way.” Quarterly West. No. 52 (Spring/Summer 2001), 86.
 
"Working with the Wiggle: An Interview with Betty Adcock." North CarolinaLiteraryReview. 18 (2009), 150-164.
 
"Not Always a 'Piece of Cake': Harrowing Humor in the Poetry of Kathryn Stripling Byer." North CarolinaLiterary Review. 17 (2008), 66-73.
 
"'what poetry can do and how it can do it': An Interview with NCLR's Poetry Editor, Jeffrey Franklin." North CarolinaLiterary Review 16 (2007), 55-64.
 
"Kathryn Stripling Byer." GreenwoodEncyclopedia of American Poets and Poetry. Eds. Jeffrey Gray, James McCorkle, Mary McAleer Balkun. (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2005), 219-220.
 
 “Fred Chappell.” GreenwoodEncyclopedia of American Poets and Poetry. Eds. Jeffrey Gray, James McCorkle, Mary McAleer Balkun, (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2005), 264-265.
 
 “Robert Morgan.” GreenwoodEncyclopedia of American Poets and Poetry, Eds. Jeffrey Gray, James McCorkle, Mary McAleer Balkun, (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2005), 1089-1091.