Smith, Jessica

Originally from Birmingham, Alabama, Jessica studied in the Poetics Program at SUNY Buffalo under Charles Bernstein, Robert Creeley, Myung Mi Kim and Susan Howe. Her poetry was twice awarded the Academy of American Poets Prize and has been translated into Danish, Turkish, Swedish, Icelandic, and Arabic. Her chapbooks include bird-book (Detumescence), The Plasticity of Poetry and Telling Time (No Press), Shifting Landscapes (above/ground press), butterflies (Big Game Books) and What the Fortune-Teller Said (dusie/a+bend press). Her work has also been set to music and movement several times, mos...