t. a. smith is a modern prose poet from the Dayton, Ohio area. Graduated from Wittenberg University with a B.A. in English, he has traveled across the Americas, the European continent, China and Africa. His witty and peculiar work focuses on aspects of physics, philosophy, and culture, inspired by writers such as Allen Ginsberg, Walt Whitman and Li Po; Charles Simic, James Tate and Charles Baudelaire.