Rod Smith
Author
Rod Smith, an American poet, editor and publisher, was born in Gallipolis, Ohio in 1962. He grew up in Northern Virginia and moved to Washington, D.C. in 1987. Smith has authored several collections of poetry, including In Memory of My Theories, Protective Immediacy, and Music or Honesty. He edits the journal Aerial, publishes Edge Books, and manages Bridge Street Books in Washington, DC. He has taught at the The Iowa Writers’ Workshop, The Maryland Institute College of Art, The Corcoran College of Art + Design, and George Mason University. Smith co-edited The Selected Letters of Robert Creeley (University of California Press, 2014).
