R.T. Smith’s new book of poetry, “In the Night Orchard: New and Selected Poems” (Texas Review Press, 2014), reflects the arc of his award-winning exploration as a poet for the past 33 years, during which he has been acclaimed as “a 21st-century master” (David Huddle, author and teacher of creative writing and poetry, University of Vermont).
“I started off writing how a lot of young poets did then and are still doing today, kind of narcissistically—‘I went out today, and I did this, and it was meaningful, and aren’t I sensitive and clever with language?’,” recalled Smith, who has edited “Shenandoah: The Washington and Lee University Review” since 1995 and was named writer-in-residence at W&L in 2009, where he also teaches courses on fiction writing and literature.
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