Lytton Smith
Lytton Smith was born in Galleywood, England, and lives in Garrison, NY, where he is a founding member of Blind Tiger Poetry, a group which aims to find innovative ways to promote contemporary poetry. His first book of poems, The All-Purpose Magical Tent (Nightboat Books, 2009) was selected by Terrance Hayes for the Nightboat Prize. His chapbook, Monster Theory, was selected by Kevin Young for a Poetry Society of America Chapbook fellowship and published in 2008. He has translated two novels from Icelandic: The Ambassador, by Bragi Ólafsson (Open Letter 2010) and A Child in Reindoor Woods by Kristín Ómarsdóttir (Open Letter, 2012) His poems and reviews have appeared in American Letters & Commentary, The Atlantic, Bateau, The Believer, Boston Review, Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, Ninth Letter, Tin House, Verse, and the anthology All That Mighty Heart: London Poems. He teaches writing and literature at Columbia University and Fordham University.
First posted on January 2, 2009 2:02 PM
- Carey McHugh & Lytton Smith at Bowdoin College, February 26, 2009
- Lytton Smith Full Reading at Bowdoin College
- Scarecrow Work (live)
- Without Rulebook (live)
- Interior Horticulture Affair (live)
- In the Meridian Courtyard (live)
- Hereafter (live)
- If You Could See the Motorist's Gloves and Leathers (live)
- If You Could See the Motorist's Gloves and Leathers (II) (live)
- Structural for the Tent (live)
- If You Could See the Motorist's Gloves and Leathers (III) (live)
- Language as an Unhomely Dwelling Place (live)
- Annuls the Space/Time Experience (live)
- New British (live)
- After the Last Days of the Circus (live)
- Addressing a Country as the Name We Like
- Your Event Horizon
- Scarecrow Work
- If You Could See the Motorists' Gloves and Leathers!
- The Tightrope Walker's Childhood
- Monster Theory
- The Wide Receiver Declares Himself Ready
- Annuls the Space/Time Experience
- New British
- After the Last Days of the Circus
- Lytton Smith Q&A on his poem "Monster Theory"
- Lytton Smith Q&A with advice to young writers
- Lytton Smith Q&A on reading a poem vs hearing it
- Lytton Smith