Jared Smith – The Alleys of Home
The Alleys of Home It’s not a game And there are no winners. The scars alone tell you what awaits you. The alley is dark. Waxed papers of pizza roil the shadows tumbling over scraps of Aristotle, Stephen King, soiled pages of the Washington Post. The little light that reaches here reflects from burned out […]
Jared Smith – A Heavy Weight to Carry
A Heavy Weight to Carry … the average cumulus cloud — often called a fair-weather cloud — can weigh around 1.1 million pounds, according to the United States Geological Survey (USGS). Very foggy this morning. The road outside my home is slick. There’s a lot of water in the air and leaves are budding. I […]
Jared Smith – Before the Storm
Before the Storm Two days out before the storm we began gathering candles from all those places one hides them, puts them away for when needed, old ones limned with the scent of mothballs, half melted Christmas candles, whatever we could find and matches, a bic lighter, an old iron lantern and yet wind blew […]
Jared Smith’s That’s How It Is, Reviewed by David E. Poston
Jared Smith That’s How It Is Stubborn Mule Press Reviewer: David E. Poston Jared Smith’s new collection, That’s How It Is, is prefaced by a passage from Rilke’s novel The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge which describes how poetry is not simply expressed feelings, but the product of experience internalized over time. Smith’s career now […]
Jared Smith’s Shadows Within the Roaring Fork, Reviewed by Richard Allen Taylor
Jared Smith Shadows Within the Roaring Fork Flowstone Press Reviewer: Richard Allen Taylor Early in his latest collection, Shadows Within the Roaring Fork, Jared Smith firmly establishes himself as a serious, truth-telling, common-sense kind of poet who would never fake his own death. So, it comes as a shock when he begins the poem, “Learning […]
