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John Warner Smith is an American poet, educator, and literary critic. He was born in Morgan City, Louisiana, and grew up in the small town of Franklin, Louisiana. He attended Louisiana State University, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in English in 1974. He then went on to earn a Master of Arts degree in English from the University of New Orleans in 1977. Smith has taught at several universities, including the University of New Orleans, Tulane University, and the University of Southwestern Louisiana. He is currently a professor of English at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Smith is the author of several books of poetry, including The Homecoming Game (1995), The Long Road Home (1998), and The Last of the Southern Girls (2003). He has also published several books of literary criticism, including The Poetry of Robert Frost (1985) and The Poetry of William Carlos Williams (1989). Smith has received numerous awards and honors for his work, including the Louisiana Writer Award, the Louisiana Literary Award, and the Louisiana Poet Laureate Award. He was also inducted into the Louisiana Writers Hall of Fame in 2004. As of 2021, John Warner Smith's net worth is estimated to be around $1 million.

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Occupation Poet, educator
Age 71 years old
Zodiac Sign Sagittarius
Born 22 December, 1952
Birthday 22 December
Birthplace Morgan City, Louisiana, U.S.
Nationality United States

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2019

About A Mandala of Hands, Terrance Hayes, a winner of the National Book Award for Poetry, has written: "John Warner Smith’s terrific debut collection pays homage to histories near and far, familial and mythic. Neighbors become ancestors, ancestors become neighbors offering the “songs we never heard,” the songs we have yet to sing in these rich poems. Smith writes with an anthropologist’s precision and a griot’s reverence as he revives, recovers and reimagines the voices that unite us. A Mandala of Hands is a mature and magical new book."

In 2019, Smith was appointed by the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities and governor John Bel Edwards to serve as the State's Poet Laureate. The poet laureate is the literary ambassador for the state and makes appearances to encourage the state's residents to explore and engage with poetry. In November 2019, Smith memorialized a violent racial incident in the state's history by appearing at a historical symposium and debuting a new poem about the events.

2015

Smith's poems have appeared in literary journals across the country, including Ploughshares, Antioch Review, Callaloo, Transition, River Styx, and Quiddity. Smith's poems have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and the Sundress Best of the Net Anthology. His poem Parted has been featured in the magazine Fjords Review. He has published three collections of poetry: A Mandala of Hands (2015), Soul Be A Witness (2016) and Spirits of the Gods (2017).

2005

About Soul Be A Witness, Thomas Sayers Ellis, winner of the 2005 Whiting Award, wrote: "This is how you upright Richard Wright. Redressed as courageous and urgent contemporary command, Soul Be A Witness carefully balances and re-injects the nutrient-like echoes of the Black Literary Tradition into our current state of soft, staged, formal phony literary legacy––as Heroic savior text and Neo Blue Print for New Black Fighting. For every stone history has cast at us, Soul Be A Witness casts three back in pure “Don’t Get It Twisted” fashion."

1952

John Warner Smith (born December 22, 1952) is an American poet and educator.