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Jedediah Smith

Novelist * Poet * Storyteller

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  • The Gunslinger in Technicolor: Poems 1980 – 1992
  • “Boo Hoo, You Bastards” in Every Day Fiction October 19, 2020
  • “Learning to Dance” in Pif Magazine Sept 1, 2020
  • “Morning Is A Nationality,” “Near Enough the Loft,” and “Cross Town Balmy Alley Traffic” in Redshift 4 May 24, 2020
  • “The Enormous Whisker” in Flash Fiction Magazine May 21, 2020
  • “Una Vida per Lucio Fulci” in Horror Sleaze Trash May 15, 2020

Month: May 2020

from an interview with Michael McClure

On May 23, 2020May 23, 2020 By Jedediah SmithLeave a comment

Programs intrigue me, but not a program that would cover the whole poem. The kind of poem that has a point just disappoints me. I think the poem with a point is the one in which the poet is convinced that the universe has a point. --Robert Duncan

The Face of Things

On May 13, 2020May 13, 2020 By Jedediah Smith14 Comments

The tissue of lies is actually quite fibrous. Though edible and delicious when tender, barbecuing only toughens it. Marinating doesn’t help either. There’s no logic at work here. Snakes for example are generally allergic.  The happy consumption of lies requires a special orifice. Children have it, though most parents deem this an abomination. It becomes …

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Sonnet 4 in 2020 in Central Coast Poetry Shows March 24, 2020

Sonnet Beginning with Lines by Milarepa, Via Negativa, and Does the Wail Diminish in Coachella Review January 15, 2020

Smoke Signals in Rye Whiskey Review January 1, 2020

To Scatter Blue Light in Solo Novo 7/8 Psalms of Cinder & Silt October, 2019

Twelve Bar Lullaby: A Blues for Geoffrey in Rye Whiskey Review October 12, 2019

Hiking Mogollon Rim in California Quarterly [print only] September 9, 2019

Christian Loidl: 1957 - 2001 in The American Journal of Poetry July 1, 2019

Haibun: Cliff Lovers in Haibun Journal (Scotland) [print only] August 1, 2019

An Episode in Early Sonoran History, circa 1983 in Mojave River Review July 1, 2019

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