RF artist Thomas R. Smith releases new poetry book

Posted 3/30/23

Local author Thomas R. Smith is pleased to announce the official Twin Cities launch for his new book, Poetry on the Side of Nature: Writing the Nature Poem as an Act of Survival  at 2 p.m. …

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RF artist Thomas R. Smith releases new poetry book

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Local author Thomas R. Smith is pleased to announce the official Twin Cities launch for his new book, Poetry on the Side of Nature: Writing the Nature Poem as an Act of Survival  at 2 p.m. Sunday, April 30 at Judson Memorial Baptist Church in Minneapolis.
Long in the making, this passionate book-length essay includes 30 older and contemporary poems in making a case for the Western nature poem as resistance against environmental destruction. Several of the living poets included in the book will be on hand to read their contributions, including Kate Hallett Dayton, Barbara Draper, James P. Lenfestey, and Joe Paddock.
Eric Utne has said of this book, “Smith has curated a remarkable collection of poems ... a bouquet of delights, teeming with life.”
Dennis Maloney, publisher of White Pine Press, said, “Thomas R. Smith’s essay on nature poetry is a most necessary curative for our fractured planet and our relationship with it.”
Kim Stafford said, “Your wide-ranging consideration of voices, times and places where these voices spoke, and issues central to our predicament all speak to our place in the ecosystem, a place so many of our actions deny.”

Smith’s favorite comment came from the late Linda Pastan, a contributor, who wrote him shortly before she died, “What a very interesting and important book! I’m happy to be part of it.”
Please come and help celebrate the arrival of the book at 2 p.m. Sunday, April 30 at Judson Church, 4101 Harriet Ave., Minneapolis. Phone is 623-822-0649. The reading is free.

Poetry on the Side of Nature can be ordered from Amazon:


Submitted by Thomas R. Smith

Poetry on the Side of Nature: Writing the Nature Poem as an Act of Survival , Thomas R. Smith, poetry, River Falls, Wisconsin