Poet and adjunct professor Ron Smith sees three poems published

J. Ron Smith, award-winning poet and adjunct professor of liberal arts in the School of Professional & Continuing Studies, has recently published poems in Plume online and in an anthology released this month.

Smith published the poem “κάθαρσης” (Catharsis) in issue #8 of Plume.

Two of Smith’s poems are published in the anthology Kentucky: Poets of Place edited by Matthew Nickel. The anthology will be premiered during Kentucky Writers Day on April 22, 2012. One of the published poems is “a loving parody of the work of Allen Tate” according to Smith. The other, “A Negroni for the Master,” pays homage to novelist, poet and critic Robert Penn Warren and reflects on the memory of an afternoon Smith spent with Warren in Vermont. Warren’s work also appears in the anthology.

Smith’s newest book of poems, Its Ghostly Workshop, is forthcoming from Louisiana State University Press. He has also written Moon Road: Poems 1986-2005 and Running Again in Hollywood Cemetery.