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Tilling the Wings: Poems from Tractors and Sandhill Cranes


Southern Methodist University - McCord Auditorium

SMU Gilbert Lecture Series

Tilling the Wings: Poems from Tractors and Sandhill Cranes

Abraham Smith
Poet

February 28, 2019
6:00pm Reception, 6:30pm Lecture
McCord Auditorium, Dallas Hall 0306

Bio: Abraham Smith is the author of five poetry collections--Destruction of Man (Third Man Books, 2018); Ashagalomancy (Action Books, 2015); Only Jesus Could Icefish in Summer (Action Books, 2014); Hank (Action Books, 2010); and Whim Man Mammon (Action Books, 2007)--and one coauthored fiction collection, Tuskaloosa Kills (Spork Press, 2018). In 2015, he released Hick Poetics (Lost Roads Press), a co-edited anthology of contemporary rural American poetry and related essays. His creative work has been recognized with fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA, and the Alabama State Council on the Arts. He lives in Ogden, Utah, where he is Assistant Professor of English at Weber State University.

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