Publications


BOOKS AND CHAPBOOKS BY THOMAS R. SMITH:

Keeping the Star, poetry collection, New Rivers Press, St. Paul, 1988
Horse of Earth, poetry collection, Holy Cow! Press, Duluth, 1994
The Lost Music, poetry chapbook, Book Press, River Falls, WI, 1996
The Dark Indigo Current, poetry collection, Holy Cow! Press, Duluth, 2000
North Country, poetry chapbook, Red Dragonfly Press, Red Wing, MN, 2001
Peace Vigil:  Poems for an Election Year (and After), poetry chapbook, Lost Music Press, 2004
Winter Hours, poetry collection, Red Dragonfly Press, 2005
Waking Before Dawn, poetry collection, Red Dragonfly Press, 2006
Kinnickinnic, poetry chapbook, Parallel Press, 2008
The Foot of the Rainbow, poetry collection, Red Dragonfly Press, 2010
Wisconsin Spring, chapbook, poems and an essay, Lost Music Press, 2011
The Night We Saved the Beatles, chapbook, poems and an essay, Lost Music Press, 2012
Dream Union:  Poems in Defense of Democracy, poetry chapbook, Lost Music Press, 2014
The Glory, poetry collection, Red Dragonfly Press, 2015
Windy Day at Kabekona:  New and Selected Prose Poems, White Pine Press, 2018
Storm Island, poems, Red Dragonfly Press,  2020
Medicine Year, poems, Paris Morning Publications, 2022
Poetry on the Side of Nature: Writing the Nature Poem as an Act of Survival, Red Dragonfly
      Press, 2022

THOMAS R. SMITH HAS EDITED THE FOLLOWING BOOKS:

Walking Swiftly:  Writings and Images on the Occasion of Robert Bly's 65th Birthday, Ally Press, St. Paul, 1992 (paperback edition published by HarperCollins, New York, 1993)
What Happened When He Went to the Store for Bread:  Poems by Alden Nowlan, Nineties Press, St. Paul, 1993
Robert Bly in This World (principal editor, with James P. Lenfestey), University of Minnesota Libraries, Minneapolis, 2011
Airmail:  The Letters of Robert Bly and Tomas Tranströmer, Graywolf Press, 2013Airmail:  The Letters of Robert Bly and Tomas Tranströmer, UK edition, Bloodaxe Books, 2013

AUDIOCASSETTE:

What Happened When He Went to the Store for Bread:  The Astonishing Poems of Alden Nowlan (with Robert Bly), Ally Press, 1994

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