Two Poems:
"Botanical Matins"
"Finding Vespers"
by R. T. Smith
Chelsea 64
40th Anniversary Issue

R. T. Smith

R. T. Smith's most recent collection of poetry is Trespasser (LSU Press, 1996). Split the Lark: Selected Poems will be available in 1999 from Salmon Press (Ireland) and Dufour (U.S.). Other work appears in The Georgia Review, Atlantic Monthly, Poetry, The Southern Review, and online in The Cortland Review. He edits Shenandoah.

About Chelsea...

Unaffiliated with any institution, Chelsea has been publishing new, established, and soon-to-be-established voices in literature since 1958. Eclectic...lively...with an accent on translations, art, and cross-cultural exchange, Chelsea mixes general issues of unsolicited work with occasional features and guest-edited portfolios.

In The Current Issue (64): 40th Anniversary Issue

Chelsea Award for Poetry: Kim Addonizio
Poetry: Sonia Raiziss, Carl Phillips, Lisel Mueller, Bob Hicok, Evelyn Lau, Karen Volkman, Michael Waters, R. T. Smith, Andrew Pope, Cheryl Boyce Taylor, Stephanie Dickinson, Pat Mora, Patricia Farewell, Mark Wunderlich, Reginald Shepherd, W. S. Di Piero, A. Poulin, Jr.
Special Feature: Laura Riding — The Beginning of an Unfinished Novel (afterword by Elizabeth Friedmann)
Fiction: Kevin Mcllvoy, Ferré, Laurie Foos, Tracy Daugherty, K. A. Major, Alejandro Murguía, John McNally
Fiction/Graphic: Ronald Sukenick
Translations: Rainer Maria Rilke / tr. William Gass, Valerio Magrelli / tr. Anthony Molino, Six Poets / tr. from the Italian by Michael Palma, Mario Moroni / tr. the author & Olivia Holmes, Antonia Pozzi / tr. by Lawrence Venuti, Andrea Zanzotto / tr. Beverly Allen & Gino Rizzo
Book Reviews: Books by Carl Phillips, Donald Barthelme, Milo De Angelis, Andrea Zanzotto, Joan Connor

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Books available by R. T. Smith:
Trespasser: Poems — Hardcover
Trespasser: Poems — Paperback
Hunter-Gatherer — Hardcover
Hunter-Gatherer — Paperback
Faith: Stories — Hardcover
The Cardinal Heart — Hardcover
The Cardinal Heart — Paperback

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