Bruce Smith (poet)
Bruce Smith is an American poet.
Life
Smith was born and raised in Philadelphia. He taught at the University of Alabama, Phillips Academy, Andover and now teaches at Syracuse University. He has been a co-editor of the Graham House Review and a contributing editor of Born Magazine.Awards
- “Discovery”/The Nation Award winner
- 2000 Guggenheim Fellowship
- National Endowment for the Arts grant
- Massachusetts Foundation for the Arts grant
- 1984 National Poetry Series Selection, for Silver and Information
- National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize finalist for The Other Lover
- National Book Award finalist for Devotions
- 2012 William Carlos Williams Award presented by the Poetry Society of America
- Finalist, National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize