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Erin Elizabeth Smith

Erin Elizabeth Smith (she/her) is Executive Director of Sundress Publications and the Sundress Academy for the Arts. She is the author of three full-length collections of poetry, most recently Down (Stephen F. Austin University Press, 2020), and the Poet Laureate of Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Her work has appeared in Guernica, Ecotone, Crab Orchard Review, and Mid-American Review and has received support from the Academy of American Poets.

Food

Fall 2023

Porcinis

By Erin Elizabeth Smith

The Kenyon Review · “Porcinis” by Erin Elizabeth Smith June 2022 A small nebula of mushrooms has escaped my neighbor’s lawn. Round-headed and earthy, they smell of the thick-bodied soups […]