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Lytton Smith

Lytton Smith is Associate Professor of English and Creative Writing at SUNY Geneseo. He is the author of three poetry collections: My Radar Data Knows Its Thing (Foundlings Press), While You Were Approaching the Spectacle But Before You Were Transformed By It (Nightboat Books), and The All-Purpose Magical Tent (Nightboat Books).

Articles

An ancient pilgrimage route inspires a project of cooperative storytelling which pairs writers with detained immigrants, such as the Mexican horticulturalist in this story.
Lytton Smith, David Herd
Poetry

America, she is not
America—
is nearby, is
nearly in sight

Chloe Forsell, Lytton Smith

A wheeling book of aspirations and frustrations, London: A History in Verse offers us a literary treasury: a record of the city, a roll of its events.

Lytton Smith
Poetry
Lytton Smith

Forum Responses

All too often we treat poems as either written or spoken.
Lytton Smith

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