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Rod Smith was born on 1962 in Gallipolis, Ohio, is an American poet, editor and publisher (born 1962). Discover Rod Smith's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 62 years old?
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Rod Smith (born 1962) is an American poet, editor and publisher.
He was born in Gallipolis, Ohio.
In 1984, along with Wayne Kline, Rod Smith began the journal Aerial Magazine, a poetry magazine devoted to avant-garde and experimental writing.
Soon after, Smith began publishing books under the name EDGE Books.
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 has taught creative writing at George Mason University where he is finishing his MFA.
After Rod Smith moved to Washington, D.C., in 1987, he became part of the DC poetry community which included the writers Tina Darragh, Lynne Dreyer, P. Inman, Doug Lang, Joan Retallack, Phyllis Rosenzweig, and others.
This group expanded over the years to include such writers as Leslie Bumstead, Jean Donnelly, Buck Downs, Cathy Eisenhower, Heather Fuller, Mark McMorris, Carol Mirakove, Maureen Thorson, Ryan Walker, Mel Nichols, Tom Orange, and Mark Wallace.
He met John Cage in Rockville, Maryland in 1987 and saw him regularly, playing chess (usually losing), in Washington and New York until Cage's death in 1992.
Smith’s own poetry is written, as Lisa Jarnot writes, “With the sweeping vision of Whitman, the noun-play of Gertrude Stein, and the slant political commentary of the New York School”.
Smith published the first Edge Book in 1989.
Smith managed Bick's Books from 1989 to 1992 and since 1993 has managed Bridge Street Books in Washington.
While at Bick's and as a founding curator with Buck Downs, Joe Ross, and Sylvana Straw of the DCAC "In Your Ear" series he organized readings for Charles Bernstein, Cage, Kevin Davies, Carolyn Forche, Bob Perelman, Tom Raworth, Leslie Scalapino, Diane Ward, and others.
Smith currently teaches Cultural Studies at Towson University, and was a visiting writer at the Iowa Writers' Workshop in the Spring of 2010.
Smith is co-editor of The Selected Letters of Robert Creeley, along with Kaplan Harris and Peter Baker (University of California Press, 2014).
